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  From: Stacy Brooks (stacybrooks@lisatrust.net)
  Subject: Timeline of harassment -- work in progress
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  Date: 2001-12-12 17:59:06 PST


Timeline of Scientology's Harassment of Robert S. Minton and 
Colleagues


1999

January 1999: A long-term Scientology spy was uncovered after 
having been sent
in on FACTNet, Mr. Minton, Jesse Prince, and Stacy Brooks.

January - February 1999: As directors of FACTNet, Mr. Minton and 
Ms. Brooks
were involved in settlement negotiations with high-level 
Scientologists Marty
Rathbun and Mike Rinder for a period of two months. The main 
purpose of the
settlement discussions from the Scientology perspective was to 
persuade Mr.
Minton to sign an agreement to stop funding litigation and cut 
off money to
people fighting Scientology. Once again, the Scientologists said 
that if Mr.
Minton would quit giving financial and litigation support to 
others, they would
leave Mr. Minton and his friends and family alone. In 
negotiations on this
matter, Mr. Minton said he intended to continue to support the 
McPherson case.
The Scientologists said they would not cease their harassment of 
him unless ALL
support was cut, especially the McPherson case. No agreement was 
reached
between Mr. Minton and the Scientologists, although a settlement 
was concluded
in the FACTNet case. True to their word, the Scientologists 
continued the
campaign to destroy Mr. Minton.

February 12, 1999: Mr. Minton delivered a speech entitled "A 
Warning on the
Evils of Scientology" at the Leo J. Ryan Educational Foundation 
conference in
Stamford, Connecticut.

March 1999: Scientology turned its full attention on Jeff 
Schmidt, Mr. Minton's
former business partner, harassing him relentlessly to get him to 
put pressure
on Mr. Minton to stop exposing Scientology's criminal conduct.

March 12, 1999: Several Scientologists picketed the home of Jesse 
Prince's
father in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Prince Sr. called the police, 
who ordered the
picketers to leave.

April 1999: A Danish television station asked Jesse Prince to fly 
to Copenhagen
to be interviewed for a documentary about Scientology. Aaron 
Mason, a member of
Scientology's Office of Special Affairs in Los Angeles, sent the 
station
manager a large pack of materials designed to portray Mr. Prince 
as an immoral
and dangerous criminal. Mr. Prince was in Copenhagen for 
approximately two
weeks, and he was followed by Scientology operatives throughout 
his stay.

July 1999: While Mr. Minton was conducting peaceful protests against
Scientology in Clearwater, Scientology operatives let him know by 
remarks made
to him that they knew his wife and children were in Spain. Three 
times during
his family's visit to Spain, a Scientology operative photographed 
them.

July 1999: Scientology operatives broke into Jeff Schmidt's 
London office and
photocopied extensive files. Mr. Schmidt was later told by a 
Scientology
private investigator that if he could not convince Mr. Minton to 
end his
opposition to Scientology, all of the files would be turned over 
to the Inland
Revenue and the Nigerian media. Mr. Schmidt called Mr. Minton and 
begged him to
stop criticizing Scientology. Mr. Minton tried to convince Mr. 
Schmidt to go to
the authorities and report Scientology's conduct as blackmail, 
but Mr. Schmidt
was frightened of what the Scientologists would do to him and his 
family, and
he refused.

August 1999: A Scientology private investigator from Denver, 
Colorado, visited
the mother of Jesse Prince's daughter and attempted to induce her 
to sign a
derogatory statement about Mr. Prince. The man told her that Mr. 
Prince had
sexually abused her many years before, and that she should press 
charges
against him for it. Only when the woman threatened to call the 
police did the
man agree to leave.

August 18, 1999: An email was sent to Mr. Minton under the 
pseudonym "Alberto
Rafallo." The sender accused Mr. Minton of illegally controlling 
the litigation
that attorneys Dan Leipold and Ken Dandar were conducting, based 
on the funding
that Mr. Minton had provided for lawsuits whose clients these 
attorneys
represented. This was the first indication that Scientology would 
begin to
attack Mr. Minton directly for the funding he was providing to 
various
litigation efforts. (In fact, Mr. Minton has never attempted to 
exert any
control whatsoever over any of the litigation for which he has 
provided funds.
Yet Scientology has characterized his funding of the suits as an 
effort on his
part to capitalize on religious bigotry and hate mongering. None of
Scientology's attorneys has ever made it clear how Mr. Minton 
could possibly be
making money from his efforts to end Scientology's criminal 
conduct. To date,
he has spent several million dollars with no expectation of ever 
getting any of
his money back.) "Alberto Raffallo" apparently  hoped to frighten 
Mr. Minton
into responding by threatening to post his information to the 
Internet. Mr.
Minton never responded to him, and the information was never posted.

August 26-27, 1999: Mr. Minton and Stacy Brooks had dinner at the 
Palm
Restaurant in Philadelphia with Ken Dandar, the attorney for the 
Lisa McPherson
estate in the wrongful death case brought against Scientology's 
Clearwater arm.
Several Scientologists surrounded the table during dinner in an 
attempt to
harass them, and the next morning six Scientologists picketed 
outside the hotel
where they were staying.

September 1999: The same Scientology private investigator that 
had followed
Jesse Prince in Denver followed him from Boulder, Colorado, to 
Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The man checked into the same hotel where Mr. Prince 
was staying.
Later, surveillance photographs of Mr. Prince and a friend were 
posted on the
Internet. A number of Mr. Prince's former business contacts 
reported that they
had been visited by a Scientology private investigator attempting 
to discredit
Mr. Prince.

September 17, 1999: Therese Minton received an anonymous letter 
informing her
that Mr. Minton had been in Philadelphia with Stacy Brooks. Also 
included in
the envelope was a copy of a post made by former Scientologist 
Charlotte Kates
on ARS. The subject was "An Evening at the Palm," dated 08/27/99. 
The post was
included as evidence that Mr. Minton was in Philadelphia.

October 1999: An old friend of Jesse Prince called him to let him 
know that a
Scientology private investigator had contacted him and offered 
him $10,000 to
act as a go-between so that a settlement between Scientology and 
Mr. Prince
could be reached.

October 15-27, 1999: Ms. Brooks tried to lease office space in 
downtown
Clearwater in preparation for opening the Lisa McPherson Trust, 
Inc. but was
refused by every office building. On October 21, MKV Realty, the 
company that
owns the Sun Trust Building at 601 Cleveland Avenue, became the 
first to
refuse. The owner would not to return telephone calls, and the 
manager would
not say why the lease had been refused. Mr. Minton was prepared 
to pay the full
amount of the first year's lease in advance, but this did not 
resolve the
problem. Because no legitimate reason was forthcoming, Ms. Brooks 
suspected
that Scientology was trying to stop her from leasing any space, 
but she had no
proof. One of the realtors finally admitted to her that he had 
received
information about the principles of the Lisa McPherson Trust, 
including
information that Mr. Minton had been convicted of assault and 
battery with a
deadly weapon stemming from an incident in September 1998 in 
which he caused
serious bodily harm to a Scientologist in Boston. This was 
patently false and
information was sent to the realtor to correct this. However, he 
still refused
to lease to the Lisa Trust. He then admitted that Scientology had 
contacted him
and threatened to put pressure on all of the other tenants to 
move out if he
leased space to the Lisa McPherson Trust.

October 19-20, 1999: Mr. Minton received telephone calls from 
several people
who lived in his Boston neighborhood. They said they had received 
a letter from
Scientology that read as follows: "If you have any dealings with 
Mr. Minton of
137 Fremont Rd., Sandown, New Hampshire, please be aware of his 
activities on
the internet. This sort of behavior by Mr. Minton has occurred 
repeatedly and
he has acted out some of his expressions in the form of violence 
at various
times. He appears to be incapable of controlling himself; thus 
you are being
alerted."

October 25, 1999: Mr. Minton received telephone calls from five 
different
people in Sandown, New Hampshire, from different parts of town, 
telling him
they had received the same letter that was sent out in Boston the 
preceding
week.

October 26, 1999: The two schools that Mr. Minton's daughters 
attended in
Boston received the same letter that Scientology had mailed out 
in Boston and
Sandown.

October 26, 1999: Mr. Minton received a four-page newsletter from 
Scientology
in his mailbox. It was called "Clear Body Clear Mind" and 
appeared to be a
promotional mailing for a Scientology procedure called the 
Purification
Rundown.  This was mailed from the Dianetics Center of Massachusetts.

October 30, 1999: A Halloween flier was put on Mr. Minton's and 
other mailboxes
on Fremont Road in Sandown, New Hampshire. The flier featured a 
photograph of
Mr. Minton and a headline that read: "Trick or Treaters Beware!"

October 31, 1999: Mr. Minton arrived at the Tampa International 
Airport and was
met by two Scientologists, who shouted at him, "Bob, what are you 
doing in our
town? Get out of our town!" He and Ms. Brooks were then followed 
from the
airport to Clearwater, and to their hotel. Richard Howd was one 
of the
Scientologists who followed Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks from the 
airport to their
hotel. Mr. Minton stopped the car near the entrance to the hotel 
and got out to
confront the Scientologists. While Mr. Minton spoke to the woman 
who was
driving the car, Mr. Howd held a video camera inches from Mr. 
Minton's face. He
continued to do this throughout the conversation, until Mr. 
Minton got back
into his car. That evening Mr. Minton picketed in front of the 
Fort Harrison
Hotel, and again Richard Howd was there, keeping a video camera 
inches from his
face as he walked back and forth picketing. Ms. Brooks was also 
there,
videotaping so that there would be a record of what happened, as 
the presence
of Mr. Howd was a disturbing signal that the harassment against 
Mr. Minton was
escalating. Finally, as Mr. Minton rounded the corner of the 
building, two
Scientologists blocked Ms. Brooks so that she could not follow 
with her camera.
Richard Howd pushed Mr. Minton while he was sure he was not being 
videotaped.
At this point Mr. Minton decided to call the police. He began to 
cross the
street and pulled out his cell phone to call, but Richard Howd 
followed Mr.
Minton across the street, holding the video camera close to Mr. 
Minton's ear.
Mr. Minton turned around and told Howd to get away from him, 
thrusting his sign
at him defensively. The sign grazed Howd's eyebrow. Immediately 
Howd fell to
the ground, moaning as if he were in extreme pain. The police 
arrived and the
Scientologists showed them the videotape of Mr. Minton thrusting 
his sign at
Howd as he crossed the street. Because there was no videotape of 
Howd's earlier
assault on Mr. Minton, the Scientologists were able to convince 
the police to
arrest Mr. Minton. He was handcuffed and taken to the Pinellas 
County Jail,
arrested for battery. Scientology immediately began to send Mr. 
Minton's mug
shot to his friends and neighbors in an effort to identify him as 
a criminal.
(Mr. Minton went to trial in March 2000 and was acquitted after 
the jury heard
evidence that made it clear Mr. Minton had been set up by 
Scientology. However,
Scientology has continued to this day to use this incident to 
harass Mr.
Minton.)

November 1999: Jesse Prince accepted an invitation from the 
German Secret
Service to meet with them in Mannheim so that they could 
interview him about
Scientology. Mr. Prince was there for three days and was followed by
Scientology operatives constantly while he was there. One 
evening, two
Scientology operatives attempted to force Mr. Prince into a car 
with them. Mr.
Prince was forced to run into a crowd to escape. Before he left 
Germany Mr.
Prince met with an editor of the German magazine Der Spiegel for 
an interview
about child abuse in Scientology's Sea Organization. On his 
return to the
United States Mr. Prince had a layover in Amsterdam. A 
Scientology private
investigator followed him to an Internet café there and watched 
him as he sent
an email to Mr. Minton. Later, Scientology falsely reported in 
the Lisa
McPherson wrongful death case that Mr. Prince had been seen 
smoking marijuana
in the café.

November 1, 1999: Mr. Minton had decided to buy a building in 
downtown
Clearwater for the Lisa McPherson Trust, since Scientology had 
successfully
blocked him from leasing office space in any of the office 
buildings downtown.
The morning after Mr. Minton's arrest, Scott Brauer, the owner of 
the property
at 33 North Fort Harrison Avenue, was giving Mr. Minton and Ms. 
Brooks a tour
of his building when suddenly seven Scientologists burst into the 
room and
began screaming at Mr. Brauer, "Don't do business with this man! 
He's a
criminal! He was arrested last night for assaulting a 
Scientologist!" Mr.
Minton and Ms. Brooks had already told Mr. Brauer what happened 
the night
before. Mr. Brauer ordered the Scientologists out of the 
building, informing
them that they were trespassing. They then began picketing the 
building and
taking photographs of Mr. Brauer's clients as they arrived. Mr. 
Brauer then
called the police, who came in and introduced themselves to Mr. 
Minton and
thanked him for taking a stand against Scientology. When Mr. 
Minton and Ms.
Brooks left the building, the Scientologists followed them to 
their car in the
parking lot across the street and surrounded the car in a 
menacing manner. They
blocked them from leaving the parking lot until the manager of 
the parking lot
called the police.

November 4, 1999: An anonymous flier showing the mug shot from 
Mr. Minton's
Clearwater arrest was sent to over 4,000 Sandown, New Hampshire, 
residents, Mr.
Minton's friends and family in Boston and England, parents of Mr. 
Minton's
daughters' classmates and the schools of Mr. Minton's two 
daughters. A private
detective visited the twelve houses in the small English village 
where Mr.
Minton's father-in-law lived, informing everyone in the village 
about Mr.
Minton's arrest in Clearwater.

November 6, 1999: Mr. Minton was served with a temporary 
restraining order,
enjoining him from coming within 150 yards of the 18 Scientology 
buildings in
Clearwater, and also enjoining him from coming within 150 yards 
of any
individual Scientologist. Because there are so many Scientologists in
Clearwater, this effectively barred Mr. Minton from Clearwater.

November 20, 1999: A private investigator hired by Scientology 
contacted the
father of Leslie White in New Canaan, Connecticut. Ms. Brooks and 
Mr. Minton
had both stayed with the White family in February 1998 to help 
Leslie, who had
just left Scientology and was close to having a nervous 
breakdown. The private
investigator falsely stated to Leslie's father that he had been 
hired by
Therese Minton and wanted to know what Leslie's father knew about 
Mr. Minton
and Ms. Brooks' relationship. The investigator told Mr. White 
that Mr. Minton
was "bipolar" and needed to be on medication on a daily basis for 
his "mental
imbalance." The private investigator also called Leslie's mother 
and Leslie
herself; unsuccessfully attempting to convince them to talk to 
him about Mr.
Minton and Ms. Brooks.

November 23, 1999: Another anonymous flier was placed in the 
mailboxes of Mr.
Minton's Sandown, New Hampshire, neighborhood. The flier was a 
copy of a web
page Scientology had created on the Internet showing the mug shot 
from Mr.
Minton's October 31 arrest in Clearwater and painting a grossly 
distorted
picture of what had happened.

November 1999: Mr. Minton entered into a contract to buy the 
office building at
33 North Fort Harrison Avenue. The owner, Scott Brauer, told Mr. 
Minton that a
Scientologist came and sat in the reception room of the building 
for hours with
a signed offer to buy the building for substantially more than 
Mr. Minton's
contract. Mr. Minton was contacted by another property owner in 
Clearwater who
told him that it was impossible to rent office space to tenants 
in Clearwater
because of harassment from Scientology. Every time anyone tried 
to lease a
space, Scientology operatives would intimidate the potential 
client until they
gave up in fear. In this way, this property owner explained, 
Scientology was
forcing the prices of all property in Clearwater down to rock 
bottom, at which
point they would buy it all up themselves. With regard to Mr. 
Minton in
particular, a property owner informed him that a member of the City
Commissioner's office made calls to all the property owners in 
Clearwater
warning them not to sell property to Mr. Minton. One property 
owner said she
got 40 calls in one day telling her not to do business with 
Minton or his
co-workers. Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks were provided with a 
photocopy of a fax
that had been sent naming three people with whom the property 
owner was not to
have any dealings. The three people were Robert Minton, Stacy 
Brooks and Jesse
Prince.

December 3, 1999: Judge Thomas Penick issued a temporary 
injunction prohibiting
Mr. Minton from coming within ten feet of any Scientologist or 
Scientology
property in downtown Clearwater.

December 12, 1999: Dateline ran a follow-up story about Mr. 
Minton in which
Scientology spokesperson Mike Rinder made the following 
statements: "Bob Minton
falls into a category similar to those anti-Semites who are out 
to make it seem
like there is something wrong with being a Jew," and later: "I 
don't know what
motivates this guy, I don't know what. But on the other hand if 
you ask me do I
know what motivated Timothy McVey to go blow up a building, I 
don't know
either."

December 1999: A flier was distributed in the Boulder, Colorado, 
neighborhood
in which Jesse Prince was living. The flier's title was "Jesse 
Prince: The Face
of Religious Bigotry," and it had a photograph of Mr. Prince from 
a recent
arrest. The Boulder police had received an anonymous call that 
Mr. Prince was
driving while intoxicated, and based on this he had been 
arrested. The text of
the flier accused Mr. Prince of being part of an anti-religious 
hate group and
of physically threatening Scientologists. It also stated: "Prince 
is closely
associated with and financially supported by a religious bigot 
named Robert
Minton, who has a long history of mental problems and psychiatric 
treatment.
Together they have threatened individuals with axes and 
sledgehammers and threw
rocks at these people and property. Prince and Minton regularly 
show up drunk
and disorderly in front of church premises just to cause trouble. 
Minton has
discharged a shotgun at our people, an incident under 
investigation by law
enforcement. Prince has recently been arrested for drunk driving 
in Boulder and
Minton faces trial this December for assault and battery when he 
attacked
another individual with a stick and beat him across the face. 
Next time you see
this man Prince (or his sidekick Minton), recognize the face of 
religious
bigotry." It was signed "Free Speech & Religious Freedom 
Committee of The
Parishioners of The Church of Scientology of Colorado."

December 10, 1999: The Tampa Tribune published a favorable piece 
by columnist
Rick Berry about Mr. Minton and the Lisa McPherson Trust entitled 
"Bob Minton:
Will he rouse the gorilla?" In it, Berry congratulated Mr. Minton 
for standing
up to Scientology, the "gorilla" in downtown Clearwater.


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  From: Stacy Brooks (stacybrooks@lisatrust.net)
  Subject: Timeline of harassment -- work in progress
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  Date: 2001-12-12 17:59:06 PST


Timeline of Scientology's Harassment of Robert S. Minton and 
Colleagues


Introduction

Robert Minton began his career in international banking upon his 
graduation
from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science 
degree in 1971. In
1980, Mr. Minton pioneered an entrepreneurial investment banking 
activity that
in time created a worldwide market for trading debt instruments 
of developing
countries. He remained in this field until his retirement in 
early 1993.

After his retirement, Mr. Minton became an avid enthusiast of the 
rapidly
expanding technological field of the Internet. A staunch advocate 
of free
speech, he joined an Internet organization called the Electronic 
Freedom
Foundation (EFF), whose purpose was to keep its members apprised of
developments that might affect free speech rights on the Internet.

In January 1995, Mr. Minton read in the EFF newsletter about an 
incident that
was causing serious alarm in the Internet community. An attorney 
named Helena
Kobrin had attempted to shut down an Internet newsgroup,
alt.religion.scientology or ARS, because some of its participants 
were
criticizing her client - the Church of Scientology. Mr. Minton 
had never heard
of Scientology before, but he became curious, as did many other 
Internet
enthusiasts, about what kind of an organization would be 
concerned enough about
criticism to take such a drastic measure. He searched the 
Internet and quickly
found that there was a substantial amount of information that 
detailed a
widespread pattern of fraud and abuse by Scientology. As he 
learned more, Mr.
Minton became increasingly disturbed about this organization that 
was violating
the rights of its adherents, seemingly without anyone in a 
position of
authority in the United States trying to do anything to stop it.

Mr. Minton made contact with other free speech advocates on the 
Internet who
had also become alarmed by Scientology's attempt to shut down 
ARS. He met a
number of former Scientology adherents who recounted experiences 
that further
confirmed his concerns. By October 1995, Mr. Minton was motivated 
to protest
publicly against Scientology's human rights violations, hoping 
thereby to bring
attention to the dangers of this organization. In March 1996, he 
traveled from
his Boston home to Clearwater, Florida, where he joined others 
for a peaceful
protest against Scientology's criminal fraud and abuse. For the 
first time, Mr.
Minton saw young children dressed in uniforms, staring blankly as 
they marched
en masse through the streets of downtown Clearwater. He was 
appalled by what he
saw, and the experience had a severe impact on him. With his 
first public
protest in Clearwater, he now came to the attention of 
Scientology's Office of
Special Affairs.

Referred to by its acronym, OSA, this is the branch of 
Scientology that is
responsible for dealing with individuals who criticize 
Scientology. Over the
years, OSA (or its predecessor, the Guardian's Office, or GO) has 
done away
with a long list of Scientology critics, utilizing identical 
tactics each time.
OSA's methods include harassment of the individual and his or her 
family and
associates, causing the individual legal problems in whatever 
ways possible,
isolating the individual from family and friends, and, where 
possible by either
legal or illegal means, causing the individual to be arrested, 
tried and
convicted of criminal acts. By bringing about a criminal conviction,
Scientology would, of course, be able to discredit the critic and 
thereby
neutralize his or her effectiveness.

In 1980, a number of high-ranking Scientologists were themselves 
convicted
of criminal conduct as a result of illegal actions taken to 
silence critics.
Thousands of documents were seized from OSA's forerunner, the 
Guardian's
Office, that revealed how far Scientology was willing to go to 
neutralize
anyone who dared to criticize it. The documents showed that 
Scientology
operatives launched painstakingly detailed projects to cause a 
number of
individuals to be arrested on false criminal charges. Some of 
these projects
were successful and some were not, but the pattern of conduct was 
clear. After
these documents were made public, the Scientology leadership 
under the current
head, David Miscavige, announced that the criminal conduct had 
been limited to
a small number of "renegade" Scientologists, all of whom had been 
dismissed.
Shortly afterward, the Guardian's Office was disbanded amidst 
much fanfare that
the "criminals" had been purged. However, the Office of Special 
Affairs
replaced the Guardian's Office, and evidence reveals that the 
same tactics have
continued uninterrupted to this day. Mr. Minton would soon 
discover how
relentless OSA can be.

In March 1996 during his return to Boston, Mr. Minton posted a 
message on ARS
offering $360,000 - the cost of Scientology's so-called "Bridge 
to Total
Freedom" - to anyone with evidence that would lead to the 
revocation of
Scientology's tax exemption. Although no one ever came forward 
with the
requested information, his message caught the attention of 
Scientologists who
watched the newsgroup. Mr. Minton also provided financial 
assistance to several
Scientology critics, including Grady Ward, Keith Henson, Lawrence 
Wollersheim
and Arnaldo Lerma, who had become targets of Scientology's 
infamous "Fair Game"
practices, in which anyone who is identified as an "enemy" can be 
tricked,
sued, lied to or destroyed for the good of Scientology. Mr. 
Minton felt that
it was unfair for Scientology to use the full force of its wealth 
and power
to destroy its critics and wanted to try to level the playing field.

In the fall of 1997, Mr. Minton offered financial assistance to 
two other
former Scientologists, Stacy and Vaughn Young. (Stacy and Vaughn 
were divorced
in 1999 and Stacy reverted to her maiden name, Brooks. This is 
how she will be
identified in this narrative.) CBS's 60 Minutes had interviewed 
Stacy for a
program that was to be highly critical of Scientology. Vaughn had 
been invited
to testify about Scientology's abuse before a court in Hamburg, 
Germany. In
an effort to frighten the Youngs into pulling out of the program 
and the
testimony, Scientology mounted an intensive campaign of 
harassment and
intimidation against them, bringing in a team of private 
investigators with
orders to destroy them financially and force them to call off the 
program and
testimony. Mr. Minton heard about their struggle and contacted 
them. Because
of his financial assistance, the Youngs were able to survive the 
harassment.
Subsequently, the 60 Minutes segment aired on December 27, 1997, 
and Vaughn
Young traveled to Germany to testify later that fall.

Mr. Minton's unexpected interference with Scientology's plans to 
silence the
Youngs seems to have been the last straw. Within days of his 
first contact with
the Youngs, OSA had launched its first attack in a relentless 
campaign of
harassment and intimidation that continues to this day. What 
follows is a
history of the lengths to which Scientology has gone to 
neutralize Mr. Minton
as a critic of Scientology.

Scientology is waging a war of psychological terrorism against 
Mr. Minton,
designed to isolate him from all his friends, his family and any 
other
potential supporters who fear that the wrath of Scientology will 
befall them
like it has Mr. Minton's former business partner Jeff Schmidt. These
high-pressure mafia-like tactics are calculated to destroy Mr. 
Minton in
accordance with the Fair Game policies of Scientology. This 
campaign against
him is directed by David Miscavige, the head of Scientology, and 
executed by
the Office of Special Affairs.

The Lisa McPherson case continues to be Scientology's main legal 
and public
relations problem. Mr. Minton has provided funding for this case, 
and from the
very beginning of his involvement, Scientology has cried foul. 
According to the
New York Times, his support of this case has angered them more 
than anything
else he has done. Additionally, Scientology does not want the 
Lisa McPherson
Trust or Mr. Minton in Clearwater because they have become a 
focal point in the
community for opposition to this cult and because they have 
helped many people
to leave Scientology successfully.

These actions against Mr. Minton are part of a 50-year campaign 
by Scientology
to covertly stifle freedom of association and free speech when 
that speech is
focused on Scientology's policies and practices that deprive its 
members and
critics of their inalienable rights guaranteed under the U.S. 
Constitution. We
take our rights for granted in our society, but it is a little 
known fact that
we have absolutely no rights under our Constitution unless we are 
willing to
stand up and affirmatively assert them. Unfortunately, this is 
the price that a
litigious cult like Scientology forces us to pay, because they 
are so willing
to strip their members and critics of as many of our rights as we 
will cede
them.  With enough support, we will not cede them any of our rights.


1996

January 27, 1996: Mr. Minton wrote a letter to New Hampshire 
Senators Robert
Smith and Judd Gregg. It was a heartfelt plea to his senators to 
do something
about the abuse of the legal system that Scientology was 
perpetrating on its
critics. The homes of two critics had just been raided after 
Scientology had
obtained writs of seizure under false pretenses. Mr. Minton had 
learned of the
abuse on the Internet.


1997

September 16, 1997: Mr. Minton received a telephone call from 
Elliott Abelson,
one of Scientology's attorneys, inquiring about his health after 
the Clearwater
protest he had attended in March. Mr. Minton had visited the 
emergency room at
Massachusetts General Hospital after his return to Boston. 
Clearly, Mr. Abelson
wanted Mr. Minton to know that he knew about the visit, thereby 
letting Mr.
Minton know, for the first time, that he was under surveillance 
by Scientology.
Mr. Abelson made subtle threats at retaliation if Mr. Minton did 
not stop
helping Scientology's critics.

October 10, 1997: Mr. Minton received a call from a relative in 
Nashville,
Tennessee, informing him that a woman named Mary Frances Newey 
was in town
doing a "background check" on him. The contact number Mary 
Frances left was the
telephone number for the Scientology organization in Boston.

October 14, 1997: Mr. Minton received a call himself from Mary 
Frances Newey.
She threatened that Scientology was prepared to attack him in a 
number of areas
if he didn't stop lending his support to critics of Scientology. 
She told him
he would be attacked in the following areas: family, children, 
ex-wife,
ex-business partners, state and federal taxes.

October 15, 1997: Mr. Minton's 10- and 12-year-old daughters were 
followed on
October 15th and 17th as they walked from their house to a 
neighbor's house for
carpool.

October 1997: Mr. Minton contacted two former Scientologists, 
Vaughn and Stacy
Young, after Vaughn Young posted a message on the Internet 
detailing harassment
they had been subjected to by Scientology. In the post he 
described how their
cat sanctuary was about to be shut down as a result of this 
harassment. Through
anonymous telephone calls, Scientology operatives had nearly 
succeeded in
having the Youngs evicted from their house and their rescued cats 
confiscated
and killed. Mr. Minton's eleventh-hour intervention allowed the 
animals to be
saved. Scientology had mounted its harassment campaign against 
the Youngs in an
attempt to stop a 60 Minutes expose about Scientology in which 
Stacy was
interviewed, and to keep Vaughn from testifying in Germany about 
Scientology's
long-term pattern of illegal conduct. Mr. Minton's intervention 
made it
possible for the 60 Minutes interview to air on December 27, 
1997, and for the
German testimony to go forward.

November 18, 1997: Mr. Minton received a threatening letter from 
Scientology
attorney Elliot Abelson, in which Mr. Abelson accused Mr. Minton 
of "fostering
a climate of hatred in Clearwater which endangers our staff and 
parishioners
who work and live there." He also accused Mr. Minton of financing 
individuals
who were committing "hate crimes," and of "going out of your way 
to foment
their irrational hatred." Mr. Abelson went on to state that 
"Association with
lawbreakers such as these, combined with the monetary demands 
that inevitably
accompany their involvement in litigation or similar fertile 
areas for attempts
of extortion, make your actions of interest to the prosecutors to 
whom such
conduct has been referred." He further advised Mr. Minton: "My 
client holds
you, your associates and backers, financial or otherwise, personally
responsible for any and all damages it has suffered or will 
continue to suffer
as a result of your tortuous officious intermeddling in Church 
litigation. The
Church will not tolerate such conduct." He ended the letter by 
demanding that
Mr. Minton "immediately withdraw all financial support for such 
matters" and
warned him that "you and those you are financing have crossed the 
threshold of
legality." In the letter, Abelson accused Mr. Minton of funding 
the Lisa
McPherson wrongful death case. Although he had not done so until 
then, Mr.
Minton thought this was a good idea and soon thereafter contacted 
Ken Dandar,
attorney for Lisa McPherson's estate, to offer financial assistance.

November 18, 1997: Mr. Minton's elderly mother in Nashville, 
Tennessee,
received a telephone call from a man who identified himself as 
"Dan Wallace" of
"East Coast Newspapers" in Boston. (Subsequent investigation 
revealed that no
such organization existed.) The man said he was doing a story on 
her son Bob
Minton, focusing on how he had accumulated so much wealth in his 
international
banking business. The man asked her if she knew someone named 
"Mr. Stokes."
This was the name of an attorney with the Boston law firm of 
Bingham, Dana and
Gould who had established a company for Mr. Minton in the 1980s. 
Bingham, Dana
and Gould had also represented the Boston Globe when it published 
a series of
articles about Michael Flynn, an attorney who, in the late 1970s 
and early
'80s, had successfully litigated against Scientology on behalf of 
a number of
former high-level Scientologists who all claimed to have been 
defrauded and
abused. Scientologists had broken into the Boston Globe offices 
to try to stop
the publication of these articles, and this had been reported as 
part of the
series. Because Stokes was the president of the German-American 
Chamber of
Commerce in Boston, Scientology was convinced, albeit 
erroneously, that he was
in some way involved with Mr. Minton's current activities with 
regard to
Scientology. The Scientology leadership was sure that the German 
government was
in charge of the "global conspiracy" to destroy Scientology, and 
equally sure
that Mr. Minton was under orders from Germany to go after 
Scientology. The man
claiming to be "Dan Wallace" asked Mr. Minton's mother if she 
knew of Mr.
Minton's "link to Germany," alluding to Stokes' German 
connection. Mr. Minton's
mother told the man that he needed to be asking her son about all 
of these
things. She asked for his telephone number, but he gave her a 
false number that
did not even have a Boston area code.

December 5, 1997: Mr. Minton was in Clearwater participating in 
the annual
peaceful protest in memory of Lisa McPherson, a Scientologist who 
died an
unnecessary and gruesome death after being incarcerated in 
Scientology's Fort
Harrison Hotel in Clearwater for nearly three weeks. While he was in
Clearwater, Scientologists picketed Mr. Minton's Beacon Hill home 
in Boston for
the first time, during his daughter's birthday party. Fliers 
handed out by
the Scientologists had a photograph of Mr. Minton and stated: 
"The face of
religious bigotry: Your neighbor, Robert Minton is not all that 
he seems. This
week he is leading a KKK-style rally against peaceful members of 
a religion.
When he's not stirring up hatred in the streets, Minton is 
poisoning the
Internet by filling it full of religious bigotry and 
intolerance." (NY TIMES
12-21-97.) This was the first of many fliers the Scientologists would
distribute in an effort to characterize Mr. Minton as a religious 
bigot and
hate monger to his friends and neighbors. The campaign to 
discredit him had
begun.

December 9, 1997: The Boston Globe printed an article entitled 
"Gifts of cash
fuel battle of principle," by Diego Ribadeneira. The article 
stated, "Church
officials acknowledged that they have conducted their own 
investigation into
Minton's funding practices. Kurt Weiland, then head of 
Scientology's Los
Angeles-based Office of Special Affairs International (OSA Int), 
was quoted
saying, "This is an extremely shady character because he covertly 
engages in a
campaign to harm our religion. It's immoral and quite frankly 
perverse." Frank
Ofman, a member of Scientology's Boston branch of OSA, was quoted 
in the
article explaining that Scientologists distributed the leaflets 
to "highlight
Minton's bias."

December 9, 1997: The Naples, Florida, Daily News published an 
article by
Leslie Miller entitled "Retired banker, Scientologists take aim 
at each other."
The article stated,  "Church members say the millionaire is using 
'KKK-style'
tactics to discredit the church," and "Members of the Church of 
Scientology
have paid for private investigators to dig into Minton's private 
life and
threatened to sue him in six states. They call it chasing a rat 
out of his
hole." Kendrick Moxon, a long-term Guardian's Office and OSA 
operative named as
an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1980 criminal case against 
Scientology,
was sent to law school in the mid-1980s at Scientology's expense. 
Now an
attorney charged with carrying out much of the legal harassment 
against
Scientology critics, Moxon was quoted saying, "Who is behind this 
guy? The man
is going to be sued because he has committed torts all over the 
country and I
want to know why is he trying to destroy religion and create 
chaos."  OSA head
Kurt Weiland falsely accused Minton of "covertly funding, and in 
this way,
manipulating litigation."

December 15, 1997: Mr. Minton's wife Therese found a dead cat on 
the doorstep
of the Mintons' New Hampshire farmhouse. This was clearly placed 
there by OSA,
a reference to Mr. Minton's assistance to the Youngs' cat 
sanctuary in Seattle.

December 15, 1997: From this date, Mr. Minton's home in Boston 
was picketed two
or three times per week until the end of February 1998.  On the 
days when he
was not picketed, Mr. Minton's Boston neighborhood was leafleted 
with fliers
characterizing him as a religious bigot and hate monger.

December 19, 1997: Mr. Minton appeared on a show about 
Scientology on "Greater
Boston with Emily Rooney" on WGBH. He talked about his experience 
in a mental
institution at age sixteen. Later the Scientologists took the 
video of the show
to his mother and used it as a way to spend three hours 
interviewing her about
Mr. Minton. They also took the video to his father.

December 21, 1997: The New York Times published an article titled 
"Boston man
wages costly fight with Scientology," written by Douglas Frantz. 
Scientology
spokesman Mike Rinder was quoted saying, "Sometimes it requires 
aggressive
litigation and investigation to uncover the depths of the 
nefarious plots that
have been attempted to destroy Scientology. The people that we 
know of whom
Minton has funded have expressed their intentions to destroy the 
Church of
Scientology, not merely to criticize.  If he wants to fund it, 
fine. He will
have to live with the bigotry he foments and be accountable for 
the harm he
enables to occur [sic]."  The article stated, "In a letter to 
Minton last
month, a church lawyer demanded that he stop financing opponents 
of Scientology
and warned that his actions had 'crossed the threshold of 
legality.'" Mr.
Minton's former business associate, Robert Smith, spoke favorably 
about Mr.
Minton, saying: "He's a man of principle and a very tenacious 
person." Later
Mr. Smith would be forced to sever all communications with Mr. 
Minton to avoid
becoming a target of Scientology's relentless harassment himself. 
Over the next
two years, Scientology would systematically target all of Mr. 
Minton's former
friends. The purpose was to isolate him so that there would be no 
one to whom
he could turn for help.

December 23, 1997: The St. Petersburg Times published an article 
entitled
"Scientology-sponsored suit against opponent," written by Lucy 
Morgan and
Thomas Tobin.  The article stated, "Scientology has blasted 
Robert S. Minton
Jr. for donating more than $1.25 million to its critics, calling 
his actions
'nefarious' and underhanded.  The church contends he is illegally 
interfering
with lawsuits involving Scientology." It went on to say that 
attorneys and top
officials for Scientology say '... Minton's motives are 'sordid'..." 
Describing the
people Mr. Minton had helped, Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder 
said, "These
people are a pack of criminals." Mr. Rinder also accused Mr. 
Minton of trying
to extort $80 billion from Scientology by his involvement with 
the Lisa
McPherson lawsuit.

December 1997: A private investigator working for Scientology 
tracked down Mr.
Minton's former secretary, Dorothy Cronin, and asked her if she 
knew of any
affairs Mr. Minton had had that might have produced a "love child."

December 1997: Scientology private investigators contacted Mr. 
Minton's first
wife Fran and his son, Rob, from that marriage. Mr. Minton and 
his son had been
estranged for several years, and the Scientology operatives 
exacerbated this
estrangement by characterizing his father's financial assistance 
of Scientology
critics as a slap in the face to his son. This was extremely 
upsetting to Mr.
Minton and served to further estrange father and son.

December 1997: Mr. Minton joined the Board of Directors of FACTNet, a
corporation founded by former Scientologists Lawrence Wollersheim 
and Robert
Penney. The main activity of the Colorado-based organization was 
providing
information about Scientology on the Internet via its website, 
www.factnet.org.
When Mr. Minton joined the board, Scientology had already 
targeted FACTNet for
destruction. Falsely claiming that FACTNet was a threat to 
Scientology's
income, attorneys for Scientology had convinced a Denver judge to 
grant a writ
of seizure. Armed with the writ, Scientology operatives had 
raided the FACTNet
offices and seized all of the computers. Scientology had then 
filed suit
against FACTNet for copyright violations, allegations that would 
later prove
to be unfounded after a costly legal battle that ultimately 
resulted in
settlement. Because it was clear that Scientology had targeted 
FACTNet for
destruction through costly legal harassment, Mr. Minton agreed to 
help fund
FACTNet's defense. When Scientology learned that Mr. Minton had 
joined the
board, Mr. Minton received a series of telephone calls in which 
he was
threatened about "what would happen" to him if he joined this 
"hate group." Mr.
Minton refused to resign, however, and the campaign against him 
intensified.


1998

January 3, 1998: An OSA operative called Mr. Minton's father for 
the purpose of
further alienating him from his son. He played a recording of a 
segment of Mr.
Minton's appearance on the television program "Public Eye," in 
which Mr. Minton
had discussed the abuse to which he and his mother had been 
subjected when he
was growing up.

January 6, 1998: Mr. Minton's Beacon Hill neighborhood was 
leafleted with a
flier that featured a large photo of Mr. Minton and the title, 
"Hatred Hidden
Behind Free Speech."  The following is the text of the flier: 
"The face of
religious bigotry: Your neighbor, Robert Minton of 39 West Cedar 
Street, is not
all that he seems. He is leading a KKK-style attack against 
peaceful members
of a religion. When he is not stirring up hatred in the streets, 
Minton is
poisoning the Internet by filling it full of religious bigotry 
and intolerance.
Minton's hatred puts families at risk." At the bottom of the 
flier was a
copyright notice by the Church of Scientology of Boston. This was 
one of many
fliers designed to characterize Mr. Minton's outspoken criticism of
Scientology's fraud and abuse of its adherents as "religious 
bigotry and
intolerance."

January 7, 1998: Long-time Scientology private investigator 
Eugene Ingram began
contacting Mr. Minton's former business associates in New York 
and Boston,
saying he was investigating Mr. Minton for "conspiracy to commit 
extortion."
Calls to these people continued for months and resulted in many 
of Mr. Minton's
associates severing their ties with him.

January 8, 1998: Scientology private investigator David Lee, who 
had previously
been in Seattle heading up an intense harassment campaign against 
the Youngs,
visited and interviewed Mr. Minton's mother, father, two 
brothers, an aunt and
his uncle in Nashville, Tennessee, over the course of a week.

January 8, 1998: Boston area Scientologists distributed a new 
leaflet in Mr.
Minton's Beacon Hill neighborhood with a photo of Mr. Minton 
attached. The
title of the flier was "Neighbor Pays to Create Hatred Against 
Religious
Group." The flier accused Mr. Minton of paying "over $1.25 million to
individuals who are engaged in a campaign to create hatred 
against members of
the Church of Scientology," and went on to explain that "the 
Church ... sponsors
many successful tutoring, drug rehabilitation and criminal reform 
projects and
is active in the community to better the lives of all citizens ..." 
The flier
ended with a plea to Mr. Minton's neighbors to "join us in 
condemning the
bigots for hire scheme of Mr. Minton." At the bottom of the flier 
was the
following statement:  "This is written as a public service of STAND
(Scientologists Taking Action for Non-Discrimination)."

January 23, 1998: Scientology private investigators and OSA 
operatives launched
a campaign to harass and intimidate Mr. Minton's friends and 
former business
associates not only in the United States but also in England, 
Turkey, Brazil,
Nigeria, Switzerland, South Africa and Hong Kong. This campaign 
would continue
over the next three years and would result in further isolating 
Mr. Minton from
his friends and associates.

January 26, 1998: Scientologists handed out fliers in Mr. 
Minton's neighborhood
in Boston and around his country home in Sandown, New Hampshire, 
claiming,
among other things, that Mr. Minton "has a history of psychiatric 
problems."
The fliers were again signed by STAND (Scientologists Taking 
Action for
Non-Discrimination). The flier distributed to Mr. Minton's 
neighbors in New
Hampshire stated: "Robert Minton, of 137 Fremont Road, Sandown, 
NH has given
$1.25 million to complete strangers to destroy a religion while 
his mother
lives on social security. He even put a lien on her house and 
charged her 10%
interest as the price of the loan. Why is he so mean and cheap to 
his own
family while showering riches on religious bigots to fund their hate
campaigns?" It went on to say: "Like many hate mongers, he has a 
history of
psychiatric problems. But a troubled past is no excuse for 
leading KKK-style
rallies and spreading poison on the internet about a peaceful 
religion known
for its helpful literacy and drug rehabilitation programs. What's 
your game,
Robert Minton?" At the bottom of the flier, again, was the 
following: "This is
written as a public service of STAND (Scientologists Taking 
Action for
Non-Discrimination)."

January 27, 1998: Mr. Minton met with the United Nations Human 
Rights and
Religious Freedom Chief about Scientology's abuse of its 
adherents and
intimidation of critics. He spoke to the U.N. official about 
Scientology's
strategy to throw a smokescreen over its illegal activities in 
France and
Germany by accusing the governments of those countries of religious
discrimination. Scientology found out about the meeting and 
launched a campaign
to discredit Mr. Minton with the United Nations. However, Mr. 
Minton's meeting
was successful in educating the U.N. official about Scientology's 
criminal
activities. In the U.N.'s June 1998 report on Religious Freedom, 
Scientology's
attempts to portray their troubles in Germany as religious 
persecution were
described as hysteria.

January - April 1998: For a period of four months, Scientology 
private
investigators repeatedly visited Mr. Minton's former banking 
associates in
England, showing a detailed "psychiatric evaluation" of Mr. 
Minton that
concluded he was likely to burst into a Scientology organization 
and "kill
twenty-five Scientologists."

February 9, 1998: A Scientology operative dressed as a minister 
distributed
fliers on Beacon Hill attacking Mr. Minton as a religious bigot. 
Others held up
a banner calling Mr. Minton a religious bigot.

February 25, 1998: Mr. Minton was featured in The Daily Free 
Press, an
independent newspaper at Boston University.  The article was 
entitled "Activist
speaks against Church of Scientology."

February 1998: A new flier was handed out in Mr. Minton's 
neighborhood in
Boston. It featured a photograph of Mr. Minton and several others 
peacefully
protesting Scientology in Clearwater, Florida. Under the photo 
was the caption:
"Mr. Minton associating with an accused child molester." The text 
of the flier
was clearly intended to upset Mr. Minton's family and turn his 
neighbors
against him. Under the heading "Facts about Robert Minton" were 
the following
libelous statements: " Mr. Minton vacations in luxury while 
charging his mother
(who lives on social security) interest on a loan when he has 
millions of
dollars at his disposal; Mr. Minton exploited the people of third 
world
countries, manipulating their debt to make millions for himself 
and the rulers
in power; Mr. Minton refuses to help his own son with a loan to 
purchase a
house, yet forked over $1.5 million to fund the members of a 
known hate group
in a campaign to create intolerance and hatred; Mr. Minton acts 
like a bully to
anyone he can manipulate with his money. His second wife left him 
rather than
put up with his brutal beatings; Mr. Minton buys people with his 
money and is
financially supporting a ring which includes wife beaters, child 
molesters and
a pornography editor." By now Scientology was publishing 
outrageous lies about
Mr. Minton, apparently in an attempt to goad him into filing suit 
against them.
However, several experienced attorneys advised Mr. Minton not to 
sue as
Scientology would use the litigation to further harass him and 
exhaust his
financial resources, ultimately forcing him to cease his 
outspoken criticism of
them.

February 1998: While Mr. Minton was vacationing with his family 
on the French
Caribbean island of St. Bart's, Scientology operatives flew to 
the island and
passed out fliers in the town and on the beach where Mr. Minton 
and his family
were relaxing. The flier contained a number of scurrilous 
charges, including a
claim that Mr. Minton associated with "accused child molesters."

February 1998: Scientology operatives followed Mr. Minton throughout
Clearwater, Florida, while he was with a film crew shooting a 
documentary about
his activism against Scientology for SAT-1 German TV.

February 1998: Mr. Minton drove to Connecticut to assist Stacy 
Brooks, who was
helping Leslie White, a young woman who had been driven to the 
brink of a
nervous breakdown by her experience in Scientology. A Scientology 
operative
tried to change the woman's mind about leaving Scientology, 
telling her that
both Stacy Brooks and Robert Minton had been sent from another 
planet to
destroy Scientology. As ludicrous as this statement was, it soon 
became clear
that Scientologists were being seriously indoctrinated to believe 
it. Word came
back from several sources that Scientologists now believed that 
they were
"off-planet people" sent to Earth to eradicate Scientology.

March 14, 1998: While Mr. Minton was in Los Angeles for a 
peaceful protest of
Scientology headquarters, Boston Scientologists distributed 
libelous fliers
about him throughout Beacon Hill. It was the largest number of 
fliers they had
ever handed out about him.

March 16, 1998: Scientology private investigator David Lee 
visited Mr. Minton's
father-in-law in England to "ask some questions" about his 
son-in-law.

March 16, 1998: A Scientology private investigator spoke by 
telephone to a
friend of Mr. Minton's family in England, explaining that Mr. 
Minton was being
investigated because of his "psychological profile."

April 19, 1998: Mr. Minton delivered a speech to the Cult 
Information Service
(CIS) Conference in Newark, New Jersey, in which he detailed the 
harassment he
had been subjected to by Scientology in their efforts to silence 
him and
frighten him away. The title of the speech was "Battling 
Scientology's attack
on free speech."

April 19, 1998: 12 million Germans watched the SAT-1 documentary 
about Mr.
Minton's commitment to stopping Scientology's criminal activities.

May 3, 1998: Scientology private investigator David Lee, 
operating in Toronto
under the pseudonym Ron Christopher, contacted a number of Mr. 
Minton's former
business associates. He claimed to be working for a non-existent 
company called
"Financial Researchers," conducting a fraud investigation of Mr. 
Minton. He
offered to pay one of Mr. Minton's former employees USD $35,000 
if he would
sign a false statement that Mr. Minton had committed criminal 
fraud. This was
the third such offer; the first two were made by another 
Scientology private
investigator, Peter Franks, in England. Franks was apparently 
working with Lee
on Lee's assignment to destroy Mr. Minton.

May 1998: A family asked Stacy Brooks to fly to New Orleans to 
talk to their
daughter about her experiences in Scientology. After hearing 
about Stacy's
experiences, the young woman decided to leave Scientology. She 
informed her
superior in New York that she did not intend to return. That 
night, New Orleans
police surrounded the family's house, responding to an anonymous 
report that a
young woman had been kidnapped. The young woman explained to the 
police that
she had made her own decision to leave Scientology, but that 
Scientology did
not want her to leave. The young woman was very happy to return 
to her family
and her old life. Stacy then flew to Washington, D.C., for an 
interview about
Scientology with a Swedish television director. When she arrived 
in D.C.,
long-time OSA operative Sylvia Stannard was at the gate to meet 
her. She
accused Stacy of kidnapping and "forcibly deprogramming" the 
young woman in New
Orleans. Stannard told Stacy, "I'm not going to let you kidnap 
anyone in my
town." Stacy asked Stannard how she knew what flight she was 
arriving on, but
Stannard refused to answer.

Mr. Minton arrived in D.C. the next day, and for the next several 
days Mr.
Minton and Stacy were followed wherever they went in Washington. 
One night
while they were having dinner in a restaurant with another 
friend, OSA
operative Matt Braschi suddenly appeared at their table with a 
camera, taking
photos of the three of them and being extremely offensive. One 
afternoon while
Stacy was having lunch with the Swedish television crew, several 
OSA operatives
surrounded their table and became so loud and threatening that 
Stacy had to
have the hotel security personnel escort the Scientologists out 
of the
building.

May 1998 - December 1999: Beginning with Ms. Brooks' arrival in 
D.C. in May
1998, Scientology began meeting both Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks at 
the airport
wherever they traveled. Sometimes the Scientologists would appear 
with picket
signs, such as in the Columbus, Ohio, airport and the Denver, 
Colorado,
airport, meeting Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks at their gates and 
following them
through the airport with picket signs. This continued until the 
end of 1999,
when Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks began to call the airport security 
to alert them
of their arrival, so that security personnel could keep the 
Scientologists away
from them. Although the harassment has stopped, Scientology still 
keeps them
under surveillance and knows when and where they are traveling at 
all times.

May - July 1998: Mr. Minton had a series of three meetings, 
totaling 15 hours,
with two of the top leaders of Scientology. He hoped to enter 
into a dialogue
about ending Scientology's criminal conduct, including fraud, 
practicing
medicine without a license, child abuse, and human rights 
violations. He met
with Mike Rinder, the head of OSA International, and Marty 
Rathbun, head of the
Religious Technology Center (RTC) and second in command of 
Scientology under
its dictator, David Miscavige.  Unfortunately, the Scientologists 
had no
interest in discussing their criminal conduct. Their interest was 
solely to
convince Mr. Minton to stop providing funds to Scientology 
critics. They told
Mr. Minton point blank that if he would quit giving financial 
support to
critics, Scientology would stop harassing and intimidating Mr. 
Minton and his
friends and family. At the end of the third meeting, Mr. Minton 
made it clear
that he would not stop his financial support until Scientology ceased
destroying people's lives through fraud and criminal abuse. In 
response, the
Scientologists intensified their campaign against him.

June 16, 1998: Dateline NBC aired a 35-minute segment on Mr. 
Minton and his
work to expose Scientology's abuse and deception called "The 
Crusader."
Scientology tried to stop the show by presenting Dateline 
executives with
information intended to discredit Mr. Minton, but they were 
unsuccessful.

July 9, 1998: The Boston Globe published a large article titled 
"The Improbable
Crusade of Robert Minton," which included information about the 
harassment he
was being subjected to.

July 18, 1998: Former Scientologist Jesse Prince contacted Mr. 
Minton via email
at his FACTNet address after hearing about the Dateline show. 
Stacy Brooks,
also a board member of FACTNet, saw the email and contacted Mr. 
Prince
immediately. She and Mr. Prince had known each other in 
Scientology for many
years but had not had any contact since they had left nearly a 
decade earlier.
Mr. Prince met her in Columbus, Ohio, and they discussed the work 
she and Mr.
Minton were doing to bring an end to Scientology's criminal 
activities. Mr.
Prince had been a high-level executive in Scientology and had 
extensive
information about Scientology's criminal conduct. He offered to 
assist them in
their work.

July 19, 1998: The next day, Mike Rinder called Mr. Minton in New 
Hampshire and
asked him if Jesse Prince was on Mr. Minton's payroll. Coming as 
it did
immediately after Mr. Prince's initial meeting with Ms. Brooks, 
Mr. Rinder's
telephone call was clearly intended to let Mr. Minton know 
Scientology had them
under surveillance.

July 24, 1998: Jesse Prince received a letter from Scientology 
attorney Elliot
Abelson threatening legal action against him if he provided any 
"information
respecting alleged events that came to your attention in your 
capacity as an
employee of a Church of Scientology" to "attorneys who are in 
litigation
against the Church of Scientology entities."

July 25, 1998: Several Scientologists trespassed on Mr. Minton's 
property in
New Hampshire as he and Ms. Brooks were swimming in the pool. The
Scientologists loudly hurled profanities down the hill at Ms. 
Brooks and were
extremely threatening. Mr. Minton ordered them off his property. 
They got in
their car and left, but then almost immediately drove back onto 
his property,
got out and began to approach him again. Mr. Minton fired two 
shots over their
heads with his shotgun to let them know he was serious about 
ordering them off
his property. This did cause the Scientologists to leave immediately.
Scientology would later falsely claim that Mr. Minton aimed the 
gun at them and
attempted to shoot them, citing this as "proof" of Mr. Minton's 
"violent
nature." However, although the Scientologists attempted to have 
Mr. Minton
arrested for this incident, the police determined that he had 
done nothing
wrong in firing the shotgun as a warning to the trespassers.

July 26, 1998: While Mr. Minton's wife Therese was vacationing in 
England with
the Mintons' two daughters, a letter from Mike Rinder was 
hand-delivered to
her. The letter attempted to elicit her help in convincing Mr. 
Minton to stop
his work to end Scientology's criminal activities. Rinder wrote, 
"I am certain
you are unaware of the real activities and nature of the people 
Mr. Minton is
involved with, and I do not believe you would want your family 
engaged in these
matters if you knew the character of these people or their agenda 
with respect
to the 'Minton money.' He went on to say, "While Mr. Minton 
claims that
[Scientology] has sought to upset his family, in truth it is his 
activities
that are the source of the turmoil that now surrounds his life 
and yours. It
comes about as a result of his relationship with a group of 
morally bankrupt
individuals who are taking money from him while they are engaged 
in unethical
and even criminal activities." Attempting to get Therese to 
persuade Mr. Minton
to meet with the Scientologists, Rinder concluded by saying, 
"Courts have found
several of this group of low-lifes [sic] guilty of violating 
[Scientology's]
rights and yet Mr. Minton gives them money to continue. A couple 
of them are
wife abusers and child molesters. None are fit to be in the 
presence of you or
your children, yet Mr. Minton is playing Santa Claus to them with 
your money.
Mr. Minton's irresponsible, if not outright malicious acts, are 
damaging my
church [sic] and individual Scientologists are well as you and 
your children. I
believe a face-to-face meeting between us would be helpful. This 
is a serious
matter. What is occurring is causing a great deal of damage. If 
you were aware
of all the facts, I am sure you would not support what is 
happening. You can
contact me at 213-960-3500 or 213-960-3508 (fax). I look forward 
to hearing
from you." This letter was upsetting to Mrs. Minton and had the 
effect of
alienating her from Mr. Minton.

July 28, 1998: An article appeared in the local New Hampshire 
newspaper, the
Union Leader Correspondent, entitled "Sandown Police: Shots Fired 
in Spat with
Protesters." This article focused on the July 25 trespassing 
incident at Mr.
Minton's house. Scientology operatives Gerard Renna and Kevin 
Hall were both
quoted. Renna said he was "tired of Minton going on Dateline and 
spreading
lies," that he was "fed up" with it. Hall lied about the 
trespassing incident,
claiming that Scientology protesters "knocked on Minton's door to 
tell him they
were protesting, Minton told them to leave; they did, and he then 
allegedly
fired the shots into the air."

July 30, 1998: Scientology began distributing fliers about Mr. 
Minton three to
four times a week during public meetings at the town hall in 
Sandown, New
Hampshire. This continued for several weeks.

July 30, 1998: Fliers were distributed at a local supermarket in 
Sandown.

July 1998: Scientology continued to monitor the travel of the 
Minton family and
photograph Mr. Minton's wife and children in England during their 
summer
vacation.

July 30, 1998: Mike Rinder sent Therese Minton a second letter 
discussing the
shotgun incident and asking to have a face-to-face meeting.

July 31, 1998: Mr. Minton was interviewed for an article in the 
Rockingham, New
Hampshire News entitled "Local man helps many leave Scientology; 
Church says he
distorts the Truth" by Lara Bricker. Referring to Boston 
Scientology spokesman
Kevin Hall, the article said "he wants to know why the Sandown 
summer resident
is on a crusade to reform the church and why he is 'spreading 
lies'" and
"trying to destroy the church."

July 1998: Mr. Minton was on a radio show on Boston's WRKO. 
Before the show
Scientologists entered the station's offices to protest their 
exclusion from
the broadcast. The producer later said the Scientologists' 
behavior was
extremely inappropriate, aggressively demanding to be put on the 
air.

August 1998: The Scientologists informed Mr. Minton that they 
knew his wife and
children had flown from England to Spain in early August 1998. 
This was clearly
done to let him know that they were being followed.

August 1998: Five Scientologists picketed the home of Jesse 
Prince's father in
Memphis, Tennessee. They held picket signs that said, "Tell your 
son to leave
my church alone." Mr. Prince's father also received a number of 
telephone calls
from Scientology private investigators telling him his son was a 
criminal.

August 3, 1998: The St. Petersburg Times, which is the paper that is
distributed in Clearwater, ran an article entitled "Millionaire's 
bizarre feud
with Scientology escalates" which reported on the trespassing 
incident in New
Hampshire. It was later learned that OSA had fed the newspaper a 
false version
of what had happened; this seemed to account for the biased 
headline.

August 8, 1998: The St. Petersburg Times ran a more in-depth 
article about the
trespassing case entitled "Millionaire not charged in Scientology 
case." The
article said "Police in Sandown, N.H., have concluded that 
millionaire Robert
S. Minton was not firing at four Scientologists at who picketed 
his house July
25, and will not file charges against him." Mr. Minton would 
later learn that
Scientologists had pressured the Massachusetts state attorney's 
office to
prosecute Mr. Minton for the incident, but they were not 
successful. The
article quoted the Sandown police chief confirmed that no charges 
would be
filed. "We've gone through everything and from where the 
Scientologist were
when the shots were fired, Minton was firing in the opposite 
direction, "
Police Chief Scott Currier said Friday. "He was not shooting at 
them." The
article went on to say "Police also confirmed that Minton was 
using bird shot
that would not have penetrated the vehicle the Scientologists 
were in, Currier
said. Minton said he fired warning shots after the Scientologists 
trespassed at
his 200-acre estate and yelled obscenities at a guest in his 
pool." It
concluded: "Minton says he has spent more then $2-million to help 
finance
opposition to Scientology, providing shelter and money for some 
former members.
He also is helping finance lawsuits, including one filed on 
behalf of Lisa
McPherson, a Scientologist who died in Clearwater under mysterious
circumstances."

August 14, 1998: The Rockingham, New Hampshire News published a 
letter to the
editor from Boston Scientology OSA operative Frank Ofman in which 
he accused
Mr. Minton of being mentally unstable. Ofman twisted the facts 
not only of the
trespassing incident but also of Mr. Minton's personal history to 
paint a
picture of Mr. Minton as irrational and dangerous, in an obvious 
effort to
discredit him. He wrote: "Robert Minton of Sandown apparently 
shot at peaceful
Church of Scientology parishioners without rational reasons - he 
claims he has
been emotionally damaged by his brutal involuntarily 
incarceration into a
psychiatric institution at the age of 16. What led to Minton's 
involuntary
commitment is not commonly known, but the residual hostility 
within him is very
evident... Minton stated on several occasions the irreparable 
damage psychiatry
has had on his youth and his overall depression in life. Perhaps 
this is a
similar story to that of the recent Capitol Hill gunman, Russell 
Eugene Weston
Jr., who also had a long history of emotional problems before his 
frenzied
shooting. Who can tell what really set Minton off to fire a 
shotgun at peaceful
Church parishioners who were merely asserting their freedom of 
speech? Did he
just take on the colors of the psychiatric enemies he was trying 
to fight? It
was fortunate that the skilled police officers of Sandown arrived 
early enough
on the scene to handcuff Mr. Minton and protect him against 
himself and
others...." It was later learned that the newspaper published the 
letter only
after intense pressure from Scientology, including threats to sue 
over its
previous news report on Mr. Minton.

August 24, 1998: Scientologists picketed the Turan Corporation in 
Boston.
Robert Smith, the head of Turan, was Mr. Minton's former business 
associate and
had been quoted in the New York Times in December 1997 saying, 
"He's a man of
principle and a very tenacious person."

Now he became a target himself for his support of Mr. Minton. 
Scientologists
passed out fliers headlined "Turan Corp. Connection to the 
Religious Bigotry of
Robert S. Minton," in which they sought to smear Smith by linking 
him to Mr.
Minton. The flier stated: "Robert Minton, a man with links to Turan
Corporation's Robert Smith, has blatantly lied to the American 
public and media
about our church, its members, its goals and actions.  We refuse 
to allow our
religion to be smeared and maligned any longer. Minton has held 
himself out on
national television and to the press to be an upstanding citizen, 
but he is
using his many millions of dollars to force his bigoted views 
onto our church
and its parishioners to 'reform it'... He promotes an agenda of 
bigotry."

In one of the first indications that Scientology was 
investigating Mr. Minton's
work in Nigeria, the flier stated: "Minton and Smith did business 
in Nigeria.
Minton made a lot of his money, he says, by helping the country's 
dictatorial
leadership to successfully default on multi-million dollar loans. 
Everyone with
the inside knowledge benefited but as events and statistics show, 
the people
suffered. While millions were siphoned off in 'commissions,' and 
lenders had to
write off huge losses, the leaders of the country completely 
ignored the human
suffering and misery of its citizens. Is this how a man of 
principal acts?" The
flier was signed: "By the Free Speech & Religious Freedom 
Committee of the
Parishioners of the Church of Scientology of Boston."

August 26, 1998: Therese Minton received her third letter from 
Rinder, saying
he wanted to speak with her about Mr. Minton. Still hoping to 
convince her to
meet with him, he wrote, "I imagine that by this time you have 
probably become
aware that some of the things I said in my earlier letters have 
now proven
true. As a matter of fact, I can show you a great deal of information
supporting the statements in those letters. I believe there is 
much more
information that you do not have concerning the activities of Mr. 
Minton and
the people he has gotten hooked up with. Clearly, Mr. Minton's 
involvement with
Stacy Young and others has not had a positive effect on your 
family. While I am
sure you have been told various lies about me and the Church of 
Scientology,
you have no downside in hearing what information I have to offer. 
I would like
the opportunity to speak with you face to face. You can call (213 
960 3500) or
fax me (213 960 3508)."

August 30, 1998: Scientology picketed and passed out fliers in 
front of Mr.
Minton's home on Beacon Hill in Boston. Scientologists carried 
picket signs
clearly intended for Therese and the children to see. Mr. Minton 
and Therese
had separated, and he had been seeing Stacy Brooks. Some of the 
signs described
Ms. Brooks as a vamp destroying the Minton family by breaking up 
their
marriage, and another sign implored Mr. Minton not to destroy the 
lives of his
children. The fliers were passed out to friends, neighbors, and 
parents of the
Minton children's classmates.

August 31, 1998: Scientologists again picketed Mr. Minton's home 
in Boston, and
passed out fliers referring to Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks as 
adulterers. The
Scientologists also picketed Mr. Minton's home in New Hampshire, 
where his
daughters were staying with him. They held up signs that were 
obviously
intended to upset Mr. Minton's daughters.

September 2, 1998: Eight Scientologists greeted Mr. Minton and 
Jesse Prince at
their gate as they arrived at the Boston airport. The 
Scientologists created
such a disturbance at baggage claim that four state troopers were 
required to
restore order. After both sides were questioned the troopers told the
Scientologists that had they known that they were demonstrating 
in the airport
they would have been arrested, since FAA regulations prohibit 
such unlawful
assembly at the airport.

September 1998: Mr. Minton and Stacy were stalked through 
Chinatown in San
Francisco by OSA operatives who videotaped them as they walked. 
They called the
police, but when the officer heard that Scientology was involved 
he called his
superior, who came to the scene and apologized, saying there was 
nothing he
could do because the San Francisco Police Department could not 
afford a lawsuit
from Scientology.

September 5, 1998: A large group of Scientologists picketed 
Therese Minton and
the Mintons' two daughters in front of their house in Boston.

September 6, 1998: Two Scientologists, Maureen O'Keefe and Joe 
Stover, picketed
Mr. Minton's house in New Hampshire. The Sandown police arrived 
and ordered the
Scientologists to leave, telling them they were creating a hazard 
on the road.

September 7, 1998: Scientologists picketed Mr. Minton's home in 
New Hampshire
again, but it was done in a car, with the picket signs held out 
of the car
windows.

September 8, 1998: Scientologists again picketed the Minton house 
in Boston.
Several friends of the Mintons' daughters were given fliers about 
Mr. Minton.

September 10, 1998: Scientologists came up to Mr. Minton's house 
in New
Hampshire again to hold picket signs out of the car windows as 
they drove back
and forth past the house.

September 10, 1998: Mr. Minton drove Jesse Prince down to Boston 
from New
Hampshire to take him to the airport. They stopped at the Boston 
Scientology
center to picket, and two Boston Scientologists, Frank Ofman and 
Kevin Hall,
began assaulting Mr. Minton both verbally and physically. Frank 
Ofman in
particular was screaming at Mr. Minton and pushing him 
repeatedly. Finally
Ofman grabbed Mr. Minton's picket sign and broke the stick. Mr. 
Minton tossed
the broken end of the stick at Ofman in disgust and then called 
the police. But
when the police came the Scientologists showed them a video in 
which Ofman's
assault of Mr. Minton was missing and the only thing on the tape 
was Mr. Minton
tossing the broken piece at Ofman. Under pressure from the 
Scientologists, the
police then handcuffed Mr. Minton and arrested him for battery. 
Scientology
immediately posted the arrest photos on the Internet and 
announced that Mr.
Minton was a criminal. However, on December 16, the judge 
dismissed the
charges, directing Mr. Minton to fax a notice to the Boston 
Scientology center
before he picketed for the next three months. Although the 
charges were
dismissed, Scientology continued to portray Mr. Minton as a 
criminal who had
been "arrested for assault."

September 10, 1998: One aspect of Kevin Hall's verbal assault of 
Mr. Minton in
front of the Boston Scientology center was particularly 
disturbing. At the
time, Mr. Minton had had several sessions with a Cambridge 
psychologist named
Terry Real. Dr. Real was counseling both Mr. Minton and his wife 
Therese, who
were separating. Kevin Hall repeated statements that Mr. Minton 
had made to his
therapist and to no one else. The only conclusion that Mr. Minton 
could draw
was that Scientology had put pressure on Dr. Real to reveal 
confidential
information from his sessions. Within days of that incident, Dr. 
Real called
Therese Minton and abruptly informed her that he would no longer 
see either her
or Mr. Minton. He refused to give a reason and hung up quickly. 
Kevin Hall
also verbally assaulted Jesse Prince with information from his 
auditing
sessions in Scientology. Scientology claims that this information 
is kept
confidential; however, when someone leaves Scientology their 
auditing files are
culled for embarrassing and upsetting information so that it can 
be used to
harass the person. Mr. Prince's auditing files were last known to 
be in Gilman
Hot Springs, California.

September 12, 1998: Several Scientologist met Mr. Prince with 
picket signs at
his gate at the Minneapolis airport. As he walked through the 
airport the
Scientologists shouted obscenities at him.

September 12, 1998: Atlanta Scientology OSA operative Diane Stein 
called Stacy
Brooks' mother in Atlanta. She told her that her daughter was 
part of a "hate
group" and that she was involved in illegal activities.

September 15, 1998: A group of Scientologists went to the office 
of Dr.
Abernathy, a psychiatrist Mr. Minton had been seeing at 
Massachusetts General
Hospital. They confronted Dr. Abernathy and demanded to speak to 
him about Mr.
Minton.

September 23, 1998: Four Scientology operatives picketed Mr. 
Minton and Ms.
Brooks in the Columbus, Ohio, airport as they went to their gate. 
Mr. Minton
called airport security and informed them of the FAA regulation 
against
unlawful assembly in an airport, and the picketers were escorted out.

September 23, 1998: When Stacy Brooks arrived at her home in 
Seattle she was
greeted by three Scientologists picketing her home. One of the 
signs read: "Bob
Minton was arrested for assault on September 10 in Boston."

September 28, 1998: Peter Franks, a British private investigator 
hired by
Scientology, spread the word to many of Therese Minton's friends 
in England and
to Mr. Minton's former business partner, Jeff Schmidt, that 
Therese, the
Mintons' two daughters, and Mr. Schmidt were going to be followed 
in order to
bring pressure on Mr. Minton to stop his activities concerning 
Scientology.

Mr. Schmidt's office had been picketed and leafleted at this 
point for several
weeks, as had his home, while his wife and children were there. 
Franks
threatened to go after Mr. Schmidt's clients, one of which was 
the Nigerian
government. Franks said they would arrange picketing of the 
Nigerian delegation
to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington, 
D. C., which
was set for October 4-8 the next month. Franks promised that Mr. 
Schmidt would
be caught in a web of an IRS tax investigation of Mr. Minton and 
in his own
problems with the Inland Revenue Service, England's equivalent of 
the IRS.
Franks said that unless Mr. Schmidt did something to help 
Scientology go after
Mr. Minton, he would have serious trouble on his hands, since the 
seven-year
statute of limitations had not yet run out on the activities he 
and Mr. Minton
were engaged in together (their partnership ended in 1993.)

Franks also said that all of Therese's neighbors would be visited 
in Boston,
and the "whole ugly scene" would be laid out for all to hear. The 
children's
schools would be targeted for the same campaign, which would 
include teachers,
administrators and parents, to paint Mr. Minton as a pariah. He 
let it be known
that he expected Therese and Jeff to pressure Mr. Minton into 
quitting the work
he was doing concerning Scientology.

September 28, 1998: Two New Hampshire newspapers contacted Mr. 
Minton to ask
him about a flier that had been distributed to every resident in 
Sandown over
the previous few days. The title of the flier was "The Truth 
About Robert
Minton, Leader of an Anti-Religious Hate Group." The flier 
characterized Mr.
Minton as irrational, unstable and violent, deliberately twisting 
the facts of
the trespassing incident and of the incident that led to Mr. 
Minton's arrest in
Boston, charges that were later dismissed after Mr. Minton's 
attorney made it
clear to the judge that Scientology had set him up for a false 
arrest.

Clearly intended to isolate Mr. Minton from his neighbors in 
Sandown by
frightening them, the flier stated: "When his hatemongering 
against our
parishioners was give prominence in the Boston media, our church 
was repeatedly
vandalized. We said then that he was a trigger's width from an 
outburst of
psychotic violence. His violence struck recently." The flier then 
gave an
outrageously false and exaggerated account of the incident that 
had led to Mr.
Minton's false arrest in Boston: "Reeking of alcohol, Minton 
turned up outside
a Church of Scientology on 10/9/98 carrying picket signs and 
started abusing
staff and parishioners. When two Scientologists tried to stop 
him, he thrust
his sign into the face of one, knocking off his glasses. He 
finally smashed a
stick over the head of the second, who was taken to the 
hospital." The flier
ended by saying "Mr. Minton has paid to create an atmosphere of 
intolerance
against our religion. His religious bigotry, hatred and violence 
must stop." It
was signed by "Free Speech and Religious Freedom Committee of the 
Parishioners
of the Church of Scientology."

September 29, 1998: Scientology private investigator Peter Franks 
told Jeff
Schmidt that Scientology would take care of all divorce matters 
between Therese
and Mr. Minton.

September 1998: Two of Stacy Brooks' sisters were picketed at 
their homes, one
in Atlanta and one in Duluth, Minnesota. Fliers about her were 
handed out in
both neighborhoods. One flier stated: "Please tell Stacy to tell 
Mr. Minton
that he should stop spending his money to hurt the Church of 
Scientology." The
picketers couldn't get a single person to take one of their 
fliers other then
the copy Stacy's sister took to send to Stacy.

September 1998: A flier was pushed through the mail slot at Stacy 
Brooks'
mother's house in Atlanta. The title was "Robert S. Minton & 
Stacy Brooks Young
-- The truth behind the lies." The flier said, in part: "Robert 
Minton and
Stacy Young have blatantly lied to the American public and media 
about our
Church, its members, its goals and actions. We refuse to allow 
our religion to
be smeared and maligned any longer.... Minton made a lot of his 
money, he says,
by helping Nigeria and other third world country's dictatorial 
leadership to
successfully default on multimillion-dollar loans. Everyone with 
the inside
knowledge benefited but, as events and statistics show, while 
millions are
siphoned off in "commissions" and lenders had to write off huge 
losses, the
leaders of Nigeria completely ignored the human suffering and 
misery of its
citizens. Is this how men of principle act?" This flier was 
signed "Free Speech
& Religious Freedom Committee of the Parishioners of the Church 
of Scientology
of Georgia."

September 1998: Virtually the same flier was distributed in San 
Francisco,
signed "Free Speech & Religious Freedom Committee of the 
Parishioners of the
Church of Scientology of San Francisco."

October 2, 1998: Maureen O'Keefe, then head of OSA in Boston, 
wrote Therese
Minton a letter in an attempt to befriend her and gain her trust 
so that she
would turn against Mr. Minton. In the letter O'Keefe denied that 
the Minton
children had been followed or harassed in any way and described a 
meeting
between Mr. Minton and her that was a complete fabrication, 
saying, "On August
13, 1998, your husband tried to force his way into the Church of 
Scientology in
Boston. I stopped him. He told me, with more hate than I hope 
your children
ever experience, that he intended to destroy Scientology. At that 
moment, I
decided that I would no longer sit back and listen to his vicious 
lies about my
religion and my friends and I were going to do everything I 
legally could to
stop him from interfering with my Constitutional Right to 
practice the religion
of my choice. I made this very clear to him that day. It is a 
promise I intend
to keep."

October 5, 1998: Peter Franks, Scientology's British private 
investigator, had
a letter hand-delivered to Mr. Minton's former business partner 
Jeff Schmidt
while Mr. Scmidt  was attending the International Monetary Fund 
(IMF) meeting
in Washington, D.C. The letter was obviously sent in an attempt 
to convince Mr.
Schmidt to turn against Mr. Minton and work with Franks. Mr. 
Schmidt did not
reply.

October 3, 1998: Jesse Prince and Stacy Brooks were on their way 
to New
Hampshire to help Mr. Minton celebrate his birthday. They were 
standing in line
at their gate at the Seattle, Washington, airport, when two DEA 
agents pulled
them out of the line and began to search their carry-on bags. 
Another agent
with a German shepherd that appeared to be a drug dog stood 
nearby. One of the
agents opened Ms. Brooks' computer case and discovered a draft of 
an affidavit
she had brought with her to review on the airplane. When he saw 
it, the agent
suddenly looked at her and asked, "Are you an attorney?" Ms. 
Brooks replied
that she was a consultant to several attorneys on the subject of 
Scientology,
and that the kind of harassment that she and Mr. Prince were 
being subjected to
by the two DEA agents at that moment was part of a pattern of 
harassment to
which she had been subjected for the past five years. When she 
said this, the
two agents suddenly closed the bags they had been searching, 
stood up,
apologized for having bothered them, and quickly left the terminal.

October 9, 1998: Peter Franks sent a flier to a New Hampshire 
company in which
Mr. Minton and Jeff Schmidt had substantial investments. The 
title of the flier
was "What is Jeffrey Schmidt's connection to the religious 
bigotry of Robert S.
Minton?" It then went on to repeat many of the same lies of 
previous fliers,
except this one was tailor-made to target Mr. Schmidt. It stated, 
"Robert
Minton, a wealthy American with past business ties to Jeffrey 
Schmidt of
Hillsleigh International Ltd., has blatantly lied to the public 
and media about
our Church, the Church of Scientology, its members, its goals and 
actions....
Minton and Jeffrey Schmidt made a lot of money through Mr. 
Schmidt's contacts,
by helping the dictatorial leadership of Nigeria and other third 
world
countries to successfully default on multimillion pound loans. 
Those who had
the inside knowledge benefited in the debt trading business but, 
as events and
statistics show, while millions of pounds were siphoned off in 
"commissions"
and lenders had to write off huge losses, the leaders of Nigeria 
ignored the
human suffering and misery of its citizens. Is this how men of 
principle act?"
It was signed "Free Speech & Religious Freedom Committee of the 
Parishioners of
the Church of Scientology." The owners were so upset by the flier 
that they
called Jeff Schmidt to tell him he must find a way to buy out Mr. 
Minton's
interest in the company.

October 9, 1998: British private investigator Peter Franks had a 
fourteen-page
package of scurrilous material delivered to the Nigerian Minister 
of Finance
while the minister was attending the IMF conference in Washington 
D.C. A copy
of the package was also delivered to Jeff Schmidt at the 
conference. The theme
of the material was that Mr. Minton, Jeff and their other 
partner, Selwyn
Lewis, had profited from the economic woes of Nigeria. The intent 
of the
material was clearly to discourage the Nigerian government from 
doing business
with Mr. Schmidt. It was also clear that Franks was sending Mr. 
Schmidt a
message about what would happen to him if he continued to support 
Mr. Minton.

October 12, 1998: Jesse Prince and Stacy Brooks were met by two 
OSA operatives,
Gerard Renna and Maureen O' Keefe, as they arrived at their gate 
at the Boston
airport. The Scientologists said they wanted to engage in some "real
communication" to try to "resolve our differences." However, the 
presence of
the two operatives made it clear that Mr. Prince and Ms. Brooks 
were under
surveillance.

October 1998: Fliers were distributed about Mr. Minton calling 
him the leader
of an anti-religious hate group. Titled "The Truth about Robert 
S. Minton,
Leader of an Anti-Religious Hate Group," the flier portrayed Mr. 
Minton as a
man of violence with a history of psychiatric instability. The 
shotgun incident
was now described as "violence" against "Scientologists engaged 
in a peaceful
demonstration." The incident in Boston was described in grossly 
exaggerated
terms to characterize Mr. Minton as dangerous.

The flier ended by saying, "Mr. Minton of Sandown, New Hampshire 
has paid to
create an atmosphere of intolerance against our religion. His 
religious
bigotry, hatred and violence must stop." It was signed by the 
"Free Speech &
Religious Freedom Committee of the Parishioners of the Church of 
Scientology."

November 3, 1998: Stacy Brooks arrived at her home on Vashon 
Island after a
trip to find six Scientologists waiting for her with picket 
signs. They blocked
her from going down her driveway, screaming obscenities at her 
and lunging at
her car in a threatening way. She remained quiet and did not 
react, and after
several minutes they backed away so that she could get home.

November 8, 1998: As Ms. Brooks drove out of her driveway on 
Vashon Island to
run an errand, she encountered several Scientology picketers 
waiting for her on
the side of the road. One of the picketers ran over to Stacy's 
van and thrust a
flier at the window. The title was "Creating Hatred and Bigotry - 
Would you
give your money to someone who is..." and it then went on to list 
several
unsavory types of people, including "an accused child molester... a 
former
pornography editor ... a member of an anti-Semitic group run by the 
most
influential neo-Nazi in the world ... a group which has been 
involved in
kidnapping for hire and which went bankrupt following a 
multimillion dollar
verdict for civil rights violations under the anti-KKK laws."

The intent of the fliers was to characterize Scientology critics 
as criminals
and perverts, and to identify Mr. Minton as the kind of person 
who would
support that kind of individual. The flier accused him of 
launching a "$2
million-plus anti-religious hate campaign against members of the 
Church of
Scientology." It then repeated the "evidence" of Mr. Minton's 
violent nature,
distorting both incidents beyond recognition: "In July 1998, 
Minton fired a
shotgun at several Scientologists who had been protesting on 
public property
against his actions," and "In September, Minton violently struck a
Scientologist with a stick outside the Church of Scientology in 
Boston and was
arrested. He is currently facing felony charges for assault and 
battery with a
dangerous weapon over this incident." These statements were 
flagrant lies. The
flier was signed "Free Speech & Religious Freedom Committee of 
the Church of
Scientology of Washington State."

November 14, 1998: Multiple felony charges were filed against the 
Flag Service
Organization of the Church of Scientology in Clearwater. This 
case was State of
Florida v. FSO regarding Lisa McPherson's death at the hands of 
Scientology.
The Scientology leadership considered Mr. Minton responsible for 
much of the
attention that had been brought to Lisa McPherson's death.

November 16, 1998: Boston Scientology operative Gerard Renna met 
Mr. Minton and
Jesse at their gate at the Boston airport as they prepared to 
leave for England
to meet with Jeff Schmidt, Mr. Minton's former partner. Again, 
the message was:
"We know where you are all the time."

November 27, 1998: Mr. Minton received an email newsletter from 
the "Friends of
Religious Liberty." Again the trespassing incident was recounted, 
but now the
story was unrecognizable from the original, with the 
Scientologists playing the
role of innocent victims: "In July 1998, Mr. Minton fired a 
shotgun at three
Scientologists who were on the road in front of his house (in a 
peaceful
demonstration protesting his hate campaign)." The incident in 
front of the
Boston Scientology center was also repeated, and that story was also
unrecognizable from the truth. Now Mr. Minton was depicted as a 
raging monster,
with the poor Scientologists the innocent victims of his 
violence: "The
following day, reeking of alcohol, Minton and Prince turned up 
outside the
Church of Scientology in Boston carrying picket signs and started 
harassing
staff and parishioners. When two Scientologists tried to stop 
him, Minton
thrust his sign into the face of one, knocking his glasses off. 
He finally
smashed a stick over the head of the second, who was taken to the 
hospital.
Minton was arrested and arraigned on a charge of assault and 
battery with a
dangerous weapon in Boston and is currently facing trial." There 
were new lies
too; Stacy Brooks  was reported to have received "scream therapy" 
at the
"Wellspring deprogramming/brainwashing center in Ohio."

December 3, 1998: Stacy Brooks and Jesse Prince were guests on 
WFLA talk radio,
the public radio station in Clearwater, Florida, during Lisa 
McPherson Memorial
Week. They talked about their own experiences while in 
Scientology at the
highest levels of management, including being incarcerated in 
Scientology's
political prison camp, known as the Rehabilitation Project Force 
(RPF).

December 14, 1998:  Mr. Minton's attorney Stephen Jonas made it 
clear to Boston
Municipal Judge Hershfang that it was Scientology that had been 
at fault rather
than Mr. Minton in the September 10 incident with Frank Ofman 
involving the
broken picket sign. The judge dismissed the charges against Mr. 
Minton. Under
pressure from the Scientologists, however, the court made a 
provision that Mr.
Minton must notify Scientology an hour before picketing in front 
of the
Scientology center in Boston. By 4:45pm that same afternoon, 
Scientology
officials were already in touch with Boston police, falsely 
alleging that Mr.
Minton had picketed the Scientology center unannounced.

December 14, 1998: Mr. Minton appeared on Arts and Entertainment 
Channel (A&E)
Investigative Reports, on a program entitled "Inside 
Scientology." Mike Rinder
from OSA was the spokesman for Scientology.

December 16, 1998: Frank Ofman sent a letter to the Massachusetts 
district
attorney's office with an ex-parte copy to Judge Hershfang. The 
letter
complained that Mr. Minton had already violated the dismissal 
agreement by
dropping off his "agents" to picket the Scientology center in 
Boston. Since the
judge received a copy of this letter, he summoned the district 
attorney and Mr.
Minton's attorney Stephen Jonas to his office, where he learned 
that Mr. Minton
had not violated the dismissal agreement at all. Afterwards the 
district
attorney berated the Scientologists for their "provocative acts." 
After the
hearing, Scientologists picketed Therese Minton at her home on 
Beacon Hill with
signs announcing Mr. Minton's relationship with Stacy Brooks. The 
picket was
timed to coincide with the Minton girls' arrival home from school.

December 17, 1998: The same two Scientology operatives, Frank 
Ofman and Kevin
Hall, videotaped Mr. Minton as he picketed the Scientology center 
in Boston,
both trying to provoke Mr. Minton into saying that he hit Frank 
Ofman first
during the September 10 incident. Both Ofman and Hall said the 
same thing
repeatedly to Mr. Minton. Hall would say, "Come on Bob, why won't 
you just
admit that you hit Frank first?" Mr. Minton would laugh and say, 
"I can't admit
to something that never happened." Then Hall would say, "Come on, 
Bob, you
should apologize to Frank for hitting him and then lying about 
it." Their
attempt to put an "admission" on videotape was unsuccessful, 
however.

December 20, 1998: Scientologists led by Maureen O'Keefe had a 
truckload of
food delivered to the Sandown Food Pantry. This was done after the
Scientologists found out that their fliers about Mr. Minton had 
turned many of
the people in town against Scientology.

December 21, 1998: In a move designed purely for harassment, 
Kevin Hall and
three other Scientologists, including Mary Frances Newey with a 
video camera,
drove up to Mr. Minton's house in New Hampshire and waited until 
he and Ms.
Brooks came out the front door. Then they drove by, yelling, 
"Merry Christmas,
Bob and Stacy!" with Mary Frances videotaping them in the driveway.

December 21, 1998: KFI radio in LA did a live show with Mr. 
Minton and Ms.
Brooks about Scientology.

December 22, 1998: While walking back to the house after some 
shopping, Therese
Minton noticed that there were fliers on cars and doorsteps all 
over Beacon
Hill. Upon arriving at her house with the girls, She found a 
handful of fliers
on her doorstep that were clearly aimed at Therese and the 
children, their
friends, neighbors and acquaintances in Boston. The flier had a 
photograph of
Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks and was titled "We Call It Adultery." 
It ended:
"Minton has spent over $2 million of his family's wealth creating 
hatred and
bigotry towards members of our religion. Minton's behavior is 
socially
obnoxious and morally impaired." The flier was signed: "Friends 
of Religious
Freedom."

December 23, 1998: Mr. Minton was a guest on the Los Angeles 
public radio
station KFI on "The John and Ken Show." Scientologist John 
Carmichael was the
other guest.

December 24, 1998: At 9:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, several Boston
Scientologists, including Kevin Hall, drove by Mr. Minton's house 
in New
Hampshire shouting "Merry Christmas!" at the top of their lungs. The
Scientologists folded some of their fliers into paper airplanes 
and threw them
at Mr. Minton's door.

December 26, 1998: All the residents of Sandown, New Hampshire 
received an
"Open Letter to Sandown Residents" from Maureen O'Keefe of the Boston
Scientology center. With a large American flag at the top of the 
page, the
letter purported to be from the "Committee on Constitutional 
Rights." The
letter was full of lies and innuendo about Mr. Minton and was clearly
calculated to turn the town of Sandown against him. The letter is 
a good
example of how Scientology accuses a critic of spreading lies and 
hatred simply
because the critic is exposing Scientology's illegal activities 
and its
violations of civil and human rights. Anything critical of 
Scientology is
denounced as lies and hate-mongering. As explained in the 
introduction, a
critic must be identified as a criminal. If he or she does not 
already have a
criminal record, then a criminal record must be created or 
invented. O'Keefe
slipped a veiled threat into the closing of her letter when she 
said, "Our
message to him is quite simple: 'You leave us alone. We'll leave 
you alone.'"
This overt reference to one of Scientology's infamous "Fair Game" 
policies was
clearly intended to warn Mr. Minton to back off. Attached to 
O'Keefe's open
letter was a "fact sheet" consisting of a by-now familiar litany 
of lies about
several critics of Scientology. Also included in the "fact sheet" 
were
repetitions of the same two incidents involving Mr. Minton. 
Rather than
trespassing, the Scientologists had now been on "public 
property": "In July
1998, Minton fired a shotgun at several Scientologists who had 
been protesting
on public property against his actions," and "In September 1998, 
Minton
violently struck a Scientologist with a stick outside of the 
Church of
Scientology in Boston and was arrested for assault and battery 
with a dangerous
weapon." There was no mention that the charges were dismissed, 
and no mention
that the violence was committed by a Scientologist who broke Mr. 
Minton's
picket sign, not by Mr. Minton. In a typical example of Scientology's
deliberate role reversal, O'Keefe ended her letter by saying, "We 
support
religious freedom and tolerance and call for an end to the lies 
and hate."

December 27, 1998: Mr. Minton was a guest on KFUO Radio, part of 
the nationwide
Christian Radio Jubilee Network in Detroit. Don Matzat, host of 
Issues, Etc,
interviewed him. The title of the program was "Scientology - 
Religious Mafia?"

December 28, 1998: While Mr. Prince was visiting Ms. Brooks at 
her home on
Vashon Island, Scientologists distributed a flier about Mr. 
Prince in Ms.
Brooks' neighborhood. The flier featured a photograph of Mr. 
Prince and was
titled, "The Face of Religious Bigotry." It accused Mr. Prince of 
buying drugs
and being paid "thousands of dollars" to attack Scientology. Mr. 
Prince had
recently visited Mr. Minton in New Hampshire. After a day of clearing
underbrush in Mr. Minton's 200 acres of woods, Mr. Minton and Mr. 
Prince were
on their way back to the house carrying axes when a group of 
Scientologists
drove by Mr. Minton's house with picket signs. This incident had 
now been
transformed in the flier into another example of Mr. Minton's 
violence. The
flier was signed, "From the Free Speech & Religious Freedom 
Committee Church of
Scientology, Seattle."


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  From: Stacy Brooks (stacybrooks@lisatrust.net)
  Subject: Timeline of harassment -- work in progress
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  Date: 2001-12-12 17:59:06 PST


Timeline of Scientology's Harassment of Robert S. Minton and 
Colleagues
2000

January 5, 2000: Mr. Minton signed the closing papers on the 
property at 33
North Fort Harrison Avenue. The owner, Scott Brauer, told Mr. 
Minton that over
the weekend he had repeatedly received telephone calls from Ben 
Shaw, the head
of Scientology's Office of Special Affairs in Clearwater, trying 
to convince
him to pull out of the deal with Mr. Minton. Mr. Brauer said Shaw 
offered him
twice the money Mr. Minton was paying and also offered to 
indemnify him against
litigation should Mr. Minton sue him for breach of contract. 
Fortunately, Mr.
Brauer was an ethical man and refused Shaw's offers. "I have to 
look at myself
in the mirror every morning," he said.

January 5, 2000: Scott Brauer received a telephone call from Mike 
Roberto, then
Clearwater's City Manager. Roberto told him that he was calling 
because he had
heard about the property deal with Mr. Minton and wondered if Mr. 
Brauer
realized how much trouble it would bring to downtown Clearwater 
if the deal
with Minton went through. Mr. Brauer said that he felt that 
Roberto was trying
to strong-arm him, and he said it seemed to him that Roberto was 
calling to put
pressure on him to back out of the sale. Mr. Brauer told him they 
didn't need
to have the conversation because Mr. Minton already owned the 
building, as of
3:45 that afternoon.

January 6, 2000: The owners of Ottavio's, an Italian restaurant 
two doors down
the street from 33 North Fort Harrison Avenue, brought wine and 
bruschetta to
the celebration party at the Lisa McPherson Trust after the 
closing. The next
day, Scientologists came to the restaurant and warned them not to 
do business
with Mr. Minton or the Lisa McPherson Trust. The owner refused to be
intimidated and told the Scientologists he was "running a 
business, not a
nursery school playground." Soon thereafter, a restaurant patron 
let the owners
know that word had gone out to Scientologists to boycott 
Ottavio's until they
agreed to stop doing business with the LMT.

January 13-16, 2000: Scientologists picketed the Minton house in 
Boston for
three days in a row.

January 16, 2000: In a letter to the editor of the St. Petersburg 
Times titled,
"Scientology has helped family, friends, business," Scientologist 
Patrick J.
Clouden of Largo, Florida, wrote: "I would never ask Minton for 
help or advice
on ethics. That would be like asking Hitler about the Jewish 
religion."

January 25, 2000: Mark Bunker, the LMT's multi-media coordinator, 
was arrested
in Chicago for criminal trespassing as he stood on a public 
sidewalk to film
two dentists who were requesting their money back from the 
Scientology
organization in downtown Chicago. Mr. Bunker was filming the 
dentists outside
the entrance when two off-duty Chicago police officers hired by 
Scientology
burst out of the building, grabbed his camera from him and 
handcuffed him. Mr.
Bunker was taken to jail, booked, and charged with criminal 
trespassing despite
two eyewitnesses who swore he was standing on the public 
sidewalk. Mr. Bunker
would later be acquitted, but not before Scientology posted his 
mug shot on the
Internet and described him as a criminal.

January 30, 2000: The Atlanta Journal/Constitution published an 
article by Jean
Marbella titled "A Private War: Millionaire spends big bucks in 
battle against
Scientology" (a reprint from a  Baltimore Sun article of January 
19, 2000).
Scientology spokesperson Mike Rinder was quoted as saying the 
following
regarding the LMT: "They're here for only one purpose, to harass 
Scientology"
and "Minton's Lisa McPherson center can only hurt relations 
between the city
and the church."

January 2000: A flier was distributed in Mr. Minton's Boston 
neighborhood with
the headline: "New revelations in secret debt buy back scheme by 
Boston
resident Robert S. Minton." The text of the flier included a 
quote from an
article in a British magazine called "Business Age," as follows: 
"Between 1987
and 1993, a complex fraud was carried out by a clique of 
international debt
traders in cahoots with corrupt Nigerian officials and was 
conducted under the
pretense of executing the official Nigerian debt conversion 
program so as to
fill their own pockets at the expense of unsuspected debt 
holders, financial
institutions and Nigerian creditors. Documents show that a Mr. 
Rasheed was the
key CBN official who worked directly with Mr. Minton and the 
Abacha family in
both BuyBack schemes now under investigation." The flier had 
photographs of
Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha, Mr. Rasheed, and Mr. Minton. It 
concluded by
saying, "The British Financial Services Authority and the Home 
Office are now
launching their own investigations into the actions of the London 
banks and
financial institutions. And the U.S. Authorities? Minton: Return 
our money
now!" Designed to appear to be from a group of Nigerian freedom 
fighters, the
flier ended by inviting readers to "Visit our website."

January 2000: Jesse Prince, in Clearwater to find a place to live 
so that he
could work for the Lisa McPherson Trust, was followed by a man 
who was later
identified as a Scientology private investigator. The man made 
lewd gestures at
Mr. Prince when Mr. Prince pulled up next to him in his car. The 
man then got
behind Mr. Prince and began to follow him in his car, speeding up 
and slowing
down, in a threatening way. Mr. Prince went to the Largo, 
Florida, police
department and filed a complaint with Officer Des Jardins. 
Officer Jardins was
able to identify the man as a private investigator working for 
Scientology,
although he would not give Mr. Prince the man's name. The man's 
car was rented
from Enterprise, where all of Scientology's private investigators 
rent their
cars.

February 2000: Therese Minton was being sponsored by another 
Beacon Hill couple
for membership in the Longwood Tennis Club. Scientology sent a 
package of
discrediting material not only to the couple who was sponsoring 
her, but also
to each member of the membership committee. As a result, she was 
turned down
for membership.

February 1, 2000: A German documentary filmmaker and his 
cameraman came to
Clearwater to interview German Scientologist Gottfried Helmwein. 
They asked LMT
Producer Mark Bunker to film them arriving at Helmwein's house 
and knocking on
his door. Mr. Bunker, standing on a public sidewalk, was in the 
process of
shooting this footage when a man who would later be identified as 
Richard
Bernard ran out of Helmwein's house and attacked him with a 
hammer. Mr. Bunker
was able to capture the incident on camera. Immediately after the 
incident,
Bernard ran back into the house and Mr. Bunker called the police. 
Two police
officers arrived shortly, and became hostile to Mr. Bunker after 
he identified
himself as an employee of the Lisa McPherson Trust. Both officers 
refused to
view the footage of the hammer assault. One of the officers 
indicated that he
intended to arrest Mr. Bunker for recording the assault without 
getting the
assailant's permission. Neither officer made any attempt to 
locate the
assailant, Bernard. It was only when a police sergeant arrived 
that the
officers agreed not to arrest Mr. Bunker and located Bernard. 
However, Bernard
gave a false name and date of birth and was never asked for any 
identification
by the officer. No charges were ever brought against him for the 
hammer
incident. It was later discovered that at the time of the assault 
against Mr.
Bunker, Bernard was in violation of his probation on a cocaine 
trafficking
charge. He was apprehended and served a year in prison.

February 6, 2000: The St. Petersburg Times published a story 
titled "How much
oddity can one town take?" written by Tom Tobin. Marty Rathbun, a 
high-level
Scientology spokesman, made the following statements regarding 
Mr. Minton: "I
worry about this guy because he is deranged";   "Frankly, I'm 
afraid for
people's lives"; "It seems the more he is ignored, the more that 
he flies off
the handle."

February 20, 2000: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
benwog@flash.net
wrote the following post on ARS harassing Mark Bunker: "LOL Hey 
Fat Man. LMT
business hours are said to start at 9 oclock AM that is. You have 
no business
showing up 3 hours late for work. Does Minton know you are that 
late? And if
you are really an employee of the LMT, then get yourself an email 
like
vp@lisatrust.net. Mr. Bunker had, in fact, arrived at work that 
day three hours
late. The message was intended to let Mr. Bunker know he was 
being watched.

February 2000: LMT staff member Jesse Prince met a man in a pool 
hall where
Jesse and his fiance had gone to play pool. He introduced himself 
as Rinsey
Trinidad and invited Mr. Prince to go outside with him to smoke 
marijuana. What
Mr. Prince did not know at the time was that the man, whose real 
name was Barry
Gaston, was a private investigator hired by Scientology to 
befriend Jesse and
set him up on drug-buying charges.

March 18, 2000: Mr. Minton delivered a speech at the Leo J. 
Ryan's Education
Foundation conference in which he gave a brief overview of the 
history of
Scientology in Clearwater from the beginning in 1975 up until the 
present time.

April 2000: John Fashanu, a retired British soccer player from 
Nigeria,
released an investigative report that contained allegations that 
Mr. Minton was
involved in the theft of billions of dollars from the Nigerian 
government and
that he was involved in a massive money-laundering scheme. 
Several articles
appeared in England and Nigeria in which the media quoted from 
this so-called
Fashanu Report. Although Fashanu claimed it had taken him three 
years to
compile the information, in fact it later came out that 
Scientology private
investigators had provided Fashanu with the completed report. 
Most of the
documents appeared to have come from a break-in of the office of 
Mr. Minton's
former partner, Jeff Schmidt.

May 23, 2000: After a two-day jury trial, Mr. Minton was found 
not guilty of
battery in the criminal misdemeanor case of Howd v. Minton.  Mr. 
Minton's
attorney, Denis deVlaming, was able to show the jury that Mr. 
Minton had been
set up for the arrest and that Richard Howd had been following 
Scientology's
"fair game" directives which require that anyone who is critical 
of Scientology
must be labeled a criminal, even if the evidence must be 
manufactured. A juror
was quoted in the paper the next day saying that the reason they 
had found Mr.
Minton not guilty was that "It was a set-up."

June 1, 2000: High-level Scientology spokesperson Marty Rathbun 
made several
statements about Mr. Minton and the Lisa McPherson Trust that 
were quoted in
article in the St. Petersburg Times entitled "Scientology foe 
sets up office
close to church." When asked how he felt about the Lisa McPherson 
Trust opening
its doors so close to Scientology, Rathbun said, "These guys are 
nobodies. They
bring absolutely nothing to this community." He compared the 
situation to the
Ku Klux Klan opening an office on North Greenwood, a Clearwater 
neighborhood
with mostly black residents. "The reason they're here is to 
harass people,"
Rathbun said. "They know better than anyone that any existing 
Scientologist
isn't interested in their information." On Tuesday, the church 
had offered to
buy the building out from under Minton, but the seller, CPA Scott 
Brauer,
declined. Rathbun said that some of Minton's followers, including 
Stacy Brooks,
were no longer in Scientology because they could not measure up to
Scientology's level of ethics. Rathbun also accused Minton and 
his staff of
being in Clearwater to violently "deprogram" Scientologists.

June 2, 2000: Customs officials detained Jesse Prince and Mark 
Bunker as they
arrived at the Leipzig, Germany, airport. Mr. Prince and Mr. 
Bunker were there
to attend a ceremony at which Mr. Minton was to receive an award 
(see entry for
June 3 below). The customs officials thoroughly searched Mr. 
Bunker's luggage,
even going so far as to open up every blank video cassette that 
Mr. Bunker had
brought to film the ceremony. Mr. Bunker was then allowed to go, 
but Mr. Prince
was detained for much longer while agents minutely searched all 
of his luggage
and his person. As they informed Mr. Prince that he was free to 
go, one of the
agents explained that they had received an anonymous tip that Mr. 
Prince and
possibly Mr. Bunker were carrying illegal drugs. Mr. Minton and 
Ms. Brooks were
at the airport to meet Mr. Prince and Mr. Bunker. Mr. Minton saw 
a man
videotaping Ms. Brooks and him. He approached the man, who 
admitted that had
been hired by Scientology to videotape them. He suggested that 
Mr. Minton could
also obtain a copy of the videotape for the right price.

June 3, 2000: Mr. Minton went to Leipzig, Germany, to receive the 
Alternative
Charlemagne Award from the European-American Citizens Committee 
for Human
Rights and Religious Freedom. The committee honored Mr. Minton 
with the award
in appreciation "of his involvement, led by his courage and sense 
of civil
duty, on behalf of the victims of Scientology;
of his efforts towards human rights and freedom of expression in 
the USA; and
as an expression of our support for the American people in 
putting human rights
violations by the totalitarian Scientology to an end." Mr. Minton 
delivered a
moving acceptance speech for this award, and an interpreter 
delivered it in
German for the German audience. Scientology operatives followed 
Mr. Minton and
Ms. Brooks throughout their stay in Leipzig and later when they 
visited Ursula
Caberta in Hamburg. Ms. Caberta was the head of a task force on 
Scientology
that was part of the Hamburg government. The police had to be 
called after one
Scientology private investigator followed Mr. Minton, Ms. Brooks 
and Ms.
Caberta in a harassing manner. During dinner at a restaurant in 
Hamburg,
Hamburg police officers identified the people at a table next to 
Mr. Minton,
Ms. Brooks and Ms. Caberta as Scientology operatives sent to 
listen in on their
conversation.

June 8, 2000: Scientology private investigator Eugene Ingram 
visited LMT
staffer Jeff Jacobsen's former neighbor in Scottsdale, Arizona. 
Ingram inquired
about the sources of Mr. Jacobsen's income and other personal 
information.
Ingram also visited the tenants of a rental house in Scottsdale 
owned by Mr.
Jacobsen.

June 11, 2000: Mr. Minton participated in a debate at Howard 
University in
Washington, D.C., concerning the accusations made against him in 
the Fashanu
Report. The Nigerian Democratic at the Howard University in 
Washington, D.C.
The Nigerian Democratic Movement requested this debate. Minton 
explained the
debt buyback in detail and answered in-depth questions from the 
public and
media regarding his dealings with Nigeria.  John Fashanu the 
supposed author of
the report accusing Minton of money laundering did not show up 
for the debate.

June 14, 2000: Stacy Brooks and another board member of the Lisa 
McPherson
Trust, Duncan Pierce, attended a hearing before the House 
International
Relations Committee in Washington, D.C. The hearing was 
orchestrated entirely
by Scientology. The audience was composed entirely of 
Scientologists except for
the members of the LMT, who were surrounded by OSA operatives 
during the
hearing. The panel of witnesses included several people known to 
be apologists
for Scientology and two Scientologists. The purpose of the 
hearing was to
convince the committee that the U.S. Congress should bring 
economic sanctions
against France, Germany, Belgium and Austria for the position 
those countries
had taken against Scientology. Scientology was portrayed as being 
victimized by
religious discrimination in these countries. No testimony was 
presented to
counter these charges. The Lisa McPherson Trust had contacted 
Rep. Gilman's
office prior to the hearing to offer additional witnesses, but 
the offer was
denied. Out of approximately fifty committee members, only about 
fifteen
attended. The hearing did not result in sanctions against the 
European
countries.

June 18, 2000: Thirty-year Scientologist Tory Bezazian contacted 
Stacy Brooks
at the Lisa McPherson Trust and asked for help in escaping from 
Scientology.
She called from Los Angeles, very distraught about leaving 
Scientology and
afraid that Scientology operatives would harass her once they 
learned that she
had decided to leave. Ms. Brooks invited her to come to 
Clearwater where the
Lisa McPherson Trust would be able to offer her some protection 
from the
Scientologists while she collected her thoughts. Ms. Bezazian 
agreed to fly to
Clearwater. When she arrived at the airport she was met by Janet 
Weiland, a
high-level Scientology operative in the Office of Special Affairs
International. Weiland followed Ms. Bezazian through the airport, 
holding onto
her suitcase and refusing to return it. Ms. Bezazian was 
frightened but spoke
to Ms. Brooks via cell phone until she was able to get into her 
seat on the
plane, where Weiland was unable to reach her. Ms. Bezazian was 
met at the
Chicago airport by her husband Harold Bezazian, also a long-time 
Scientologist,
who begged her not to go to Clearwater and not to leave 
Scientology. Ms.
Bezazian told her husband that she wanted to speak to the people 
at the Lisa
McPherson Trust and got on her plane to Tampa.

Ms. Brooks, Mr. Minton and Jesse Prince went to the airport to 
meet Ms.
Bezazian. It was nearly two in the morning, but when they arrived 
at Ms.
Bezazian's gate they found four Scientology operatives there 
waiting for the
plane. One of the Scientologists was Dennis Clarke, a long-time 
Scientology
operative who was also head of Scientology's anti-psychiatry 
front group,
Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Another was Charlie Earls, a 
long-time
member of the intelligence branch of Scientology's Office of 
Special Affairs. A
woman named Cathy True was also there. True was also in the 
Office of Special
Affairs. She was known to Ms. Brooks as the person sent by 
Scientology to
threaten people who no longer want to be in Scientology, 
particularly those who
want money refunded. The fourth Scientologist was a woman named 
Penny Jones.
She had been a friend of Ms. Bezazian's. When Ms. Bezazian came 
into the
terminal Jones immediately pulled her aside and insisted on 
speaking to her.

Two Tampa police officers were there to ensure that Ms. Bezazian 
was not forced
to go with the Scientologists against her will. Ms. Brooks asked 
one of the
officers to assist Ms. Bezazian, but he informed her that he 
could do nothing
unless Ms. Bezazian stated that she did not want to go with 
Jones. Jones spent
several minutes trying to talk Ms. Bezazian into leaving with 
her. While this
conversation was occurring, Charlie Earls approached the police 
officers and
began to give them false information about Mr. Minton, Ms. Brooks 
and Mr.
Prince, saying they were wanted by the police. The police officer 
ordered Earls
to show him copies of arrest warrants or be quiet. Finally Ms. 
Bezazian said in
a loud voice, "Penny, I want to talk to these people. I want to 
go with them."
The two police officers immediately ordered the Scientologists to 
back away and
moved in close to Ms. Bezazian and Ms. Brooks, flanking them on 
both sides.
They announced loudly, "This is police business! Everyone stay 
out of the way!"
and escorted Ms. Bezazian, Mr. Minton, Mr. Prince and Ms. Brooks 
out of the
airport and to their car.

That night Ms. Bezazian stayed in a room at the Hyatt Westshore, 
a hotel near
the airport. Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks also stayed at the hotel 
so that Ms.
Bezazian would not be alone. They were up all night, because Ms. 
Bezazian
wanted to talk to them. Early the next morning, Scientologists 
began knocking
on her door, trying to convince her to leave with them. She felt 
harassed by
them and it was necessary to have staff of the Lisa McPherson 
Trust at the
hotel all day the next day to protect her.

June 23, 2000: An English translation of a letter from the 
Nigerian High
Commissioner in London, Prince Bola Ajibola, to a prosecutor in 
Geneva,
Switzerland, General Bernard Bertossa, appeared anonymously on 
the Internet. In
it, Prince Ajibola accused Mr. Minton of money-laundering and 
fraud against the
Nigerian government and asked Bertossa to press criminal charges 
against Mr.
Minton. Clearly, Prince Ajibola's complaint was based on the 
Fashanu Report.

June 23, 2000: Ursula Caberta, head of the Hamburg government's 
task force on
Scientology, came to Clearwater on vacation to visit her friends, 
Mr. Minton,
Ms. Brooks, and others at the Lisa McPherson Trust. Upon her 
arrival at Tampa
International Airport, approximately forty Scientologists 
materialized as Ms.
Caberta entered the terminal and began shouting at her, "Nazi go 
home!" The
Scientologists surrounded Ms. Caberta and Ms. Brooks, who guided 
Ms. Caberta
through the hostile crowd and protected her until the airport 
police arrived
and forced the Scientologists away. The police then escorted Ms. 
Caberta, Ms.
Brooks and Mr. Minton through the airport and into the adjoining 
police
station. The police stayed with Ms. Caberta and Ms. Brooks while 
Mr. Minton got
the car, and the police then escorted the two women to the car to 
make sure
they would be safe. Ms. Brooks had intended that Ms. Caberta 
would be a guest
at her home during her vacation. However, Tory Bezazian, a 
thirty-year
Scientologist, had just left Scientology and was under the care 
of the Lisa
McPherson Trust to protect her from being harassed by 
Scientologists. She had
been staying at a hotel in Tampa, but there was so much 
harassment from
Scientology at the hotel that it was decided she would safer at 
the home of Ms.
Brooks. As a Scientologist, Ms. Bezazian had been indoctrinated 
to believe that
Ms. Caberta was an evil, dangerous person, so Ms. Bezazian was 
afraid to be in
the same house with her. Therefore, a hotel had been reserved for 
Ms. Caberta.
When she was taken to her hotel to check in, however, it was 
discovered that
someone had canceled her reservation and another hotel had to be 
found late
that night.

June 25, 2000: Ms. Caberta wanted to speak to U.S. media about 
the situation
with Scientology in Germany, because Scientology was harassing 
her in Germany
and trying to get her government superiors to fire her, and she 
wanted the
truth to be known in the U.S. Therefore, the Lisa McPherson Trust 
invited
several local media to their offices and held a reception at 
which Ms. Caberta
discussed the fact that Scientology was viewed as a fraudulent 
commercial
enterprise in Germany, not as a religion, and that many 
Scientologists had been
found to be committing criminal fraud in Germany. During this 
reception,
Scientologists were outside trying to disrupt the gathering, and 
when Ms.
Caberta left later that day, she was served at her hotel with a 
subpoena to
appear for a deposition in the Lisa McPherson wrongful death 
case, a legal
proceeding in which Ms. Caberta had no involvement whatsoever.

June 2000: While Therese Minton was on vacation in England with 
the children,
they were followed by Scientology private investigators wherever 
they went.

July 7, 2000: Long-time Scientologist and former 
top-management-level staff
member Dan Feeley came into the Lisa McPherson Trust and demanded 
to have an
appointment with the president, Stacy Brooks. They had worked 
together and been
friends when she was still in Scientology.

July 8, 2000: Long-time Scientologist and head of its front 
group, Citizens
Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Dennis Clarke came to the back 
door of the
Lisa McPherson Trust and made harassing comments to the staff of 
the Lisa
McPherson Trust.

July 8, 2000: Richard Hurst, a Scientologist active in working 
with OSA, came
in to harass the members of the Lisa McPherson Trust.

July 9, 2000: Long-time Scientologist and former Guardian's 
Office staff member
Steve Sigal came to the front door of the Lisa McPherson Trust 
and said he
wanted to talk to the president, Stacy Brooks. He and Stacy had 
worked together
in the Guardian's Office and had been good friends. She spoke to 
him long
enough to ascertain that he was there to harass her, at which 
point she called
the police and had a trespass warning issued against him. He did 
not return.

July 13, 2000: Several Scientologists, including T. C. Applebaum, 
Mary DeMoss,
Herb Zerden and Cat Jordan, came into the reception of the Lisa 
McPherson Trust
and began to create a disturbance, yelling obscenities at the 
staff and
refusing to leave despite repeated requests by the president, 
Stacy Brooks, to
do so. When she informed them that she was going to call the 
police, they left
the building but remained on the sidewalk, continuing to hurl 
insults at the
staff.

July 22, 2000: Ursula Caberta, head of the Scientology task force 
of the
Hamburg, Germany, government, and a friend of Mr. Minton, Stacy 
Brooks and the
LMT staff, came to Clearwater on vacation, having never visited 
Florida before.
Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks went to the airport to meet her, along 
with several
other LMT staff. When Ms. Caberta walked into the terminal, 
approximately forty
Scientologists materialized out of the crowd and began yelling, 
"Nazi, go
home!" and other epithets at Ms. Caberta. They also approached 
her in a
menacing way, necessitating an escort through the airport by the 
Tampa airport
police. Scientologists followed Ms. Caberta through the airport, 
making it
necessary for the police to surround her to keep her safe. The 
police escorted
Ms. Caberta, Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks to their car to ensure 
their safety.

July 23, 2000: Dennis Clarke, a long-time Scientologist and the 
head of the
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a Scientology front 
group,
assaulted several individuals while they were peacefully 
protesting in
Clearwater. Several battery complaints were filed against Clark 
with the
Clearwater Police, but no charges were ever brought against him.

July 25, 2000: Ursula Caberta had asked if she could have a 
chance to speak to
the U.S. media while she was in Clearwater, because Scientology 
was putting
pressure on the German government to back away from its stance on 
Scientology.
Ms. Caberta had been the target of a harassment campaign in 
Hamburg, and she
wanted to set the record straight in the United States. The LMT 
invited the
local media to talk to Ms. Caberta, and a few came to meet her 
for an informal
discussion. Ms. Caberta spoke about the criminal activities of 
individual
Scientologists in Germany, including a woman named Antje Victore 
who had
obtained asylum in the United States after presenting false 
documents to a
federal judge in Tampa.

Numerous Scientologists were videotaping all the people coming 
and going into
the Lisa McPherson Trust. Michael Krotz, a licensed private 
investigator
handling security for the LMT, went to the parking garage across 
the street to
investigate a report of a disturbance. Upon entering the third 
floor of the
parking garage, Krotz encountered Scientologist Dennis Clark. 
Clark assaulted
Krotz and Krotz caught this incident on videotape. Clark then 
departed the
area. Officers at the scene refused to take a report of the 
incident so Krotz
later went to the Clearwater Police Department, accompanied by a 
witness to the
incident, and filed a battery complaint. Despite videotaped 
evidence of
assault, the State Attorney refused to prosecute Clark.

July 26, 2000: After Ms. Caberta spoke to the media in 
Clearwater, she was
besieged in her hotel, the Belleview Biltmore, by Scientologists. 
While having
dinner with Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks in the hotel dining room, two
Scientologists interrupted them and began to harass Ms. Caberta, 
telling her
that she should go back to Germany. Scientologists stationed 
themselves outside
her hotel room door so that she could not leave her room without 
running a
gauntlet of harassive Scientologists. The next day, two people 
presented
themselves as off-duty plain-clothes police officers to the desk 
clerks of the
hotel. In fact, these two men were Daniel Otero, a Scientology 
private
investigator, and Robert Bossard, a process server working for 
Scientology.
Believing them to be police officers, the hotel clerk directed 
them to Ms.
Caberta's room. There, Otero, Bossard and several Scientologists 
began to
harass Caberta, yelling and pounding on her hotel door and 
sliding subpoenas
for deposition in the Lisa McPherson wrongful death case, in 
which Ms. Caberta
had no involvement, under the door.

July 2000: While Ms. Caberta was in Florida with Mr. Minton and 
the LMT,
Scientologists in Hamburg staged protests against the Hamburg 
government
calculated to cause Ms. Caberta to lose her job. Scientologists 
passed out
fliers in front of the building where Ms. Caberta's superiors had 
their
offices. The headline of the flier was, "Down with official 
camaraderie with
white-collar criminals!" The text of the flier said, among other 
things, "For
weeks Caberta, with the approval of her employers and under the 
label of the
Interior Agency, has been openly fraternizing with big-time 
American swindler,
Bob Minton. Joint appearances before the television cameras 
publicly honoring
and paying homage to the international criminal (with the full 
seal of approval
of Caberta's office as a department director of the Hamburg 
Interior Agency -
of course) are only facets of a marriage carried out in public 
between the
international money Mafia and the Hamburg office." The flier went 
on to libel
Mr. Minton regarding his business dealings in Nigeria, stating, 
"The Republic
of Nigeria, having suffered losses in the hundreds of millions of 
dollars, has
just at the end of June, had the Attorney General's office charge 
Minton with
fraud, falsifications of records and money-laundering, with the 
Nigerian people
as victims. There are demands for his bank accounts to be 
confiscated and for
Minton's Mafia system of fraud spread across Europe in covert 
companies,
middlemen and criminals to be exposed." This was all false, but 
at the time Mr.
Minton could not determine the truth of the situation. The flier 
was signed,
"Legally responsible person ("V.I.S.D.P."): Frank Busch, c/o 
Scientology Church
Hamburg, Inc."

August 2000: Mr. Minton had invested in a film based on a 
screenplay by former
Scientologist Peter Alexander. The film was about a con artist 
who started a
cult to make money. Although there was no mention of Scientology 
in the film,
Scientology began handing out inflammatory fliers about Mr. 
Minton in Tampa,
Florida, where the film was being made. One flier had a 
photograph of a
malnourished Nigerian child in the arms of a nurse. Underneath 
the photograph
was a quote attributed to "Robert Minton, rogue financier" that 
said: "I've
never been to Nigeria... It was just a business deal." The text of 
the flier
charged that "If Robert Minton is providing money that is 
financing this film,
that money comes from the mouths of starving Nigerian children. 
The government
of Nigeria brought criminal charges against Minton on June 23rd 
for fraud,
forgery of financial documents, and the laundering of money. 
Minton is charged
with skimming millions of dollars off financial transactions in 
dealing with
the former dictatorship of Nigeria which led to the loss of some 
$6 billion to
the Nigerian economy. The new democratic government of Nigeria is 
taking steps
to recover this money and deal with the perpetrators of this 
fraud against
their people.... Blood Money is financing this propaganda." At the 
bottom of the
flier was the following statement: "For the facts, contact the 
Foundation for
Religious Tolerance (727) 448-1960."

August 11, 2000: At 8:00 in the morning a SWAT team of 12 Largo 
police officers
burst into LMT staffer Jesse Prince's house with instructions to 
search for
drugs and drug paraphernalia, clearly expecting to find evidence 
that Jesse was
a major drug dealer. They found no drugs and no paraphernalia in 
the house;
however, they did find one small marijuana plant growing out of 
the dead roots
of another plant in the back yard. Based on this Jesse was 
arrested for felony
drug cultivation and spent the day in jail. (The charge was later 
downgraded to
misdemeanor possession of marijuana. Mr. Prince stood trial on 
this charge in
March 2001. Three Scientology private investigators testified 
under oath that
they were hired to set Mr. Prince up on drug charges. The trial 
resulted in a
hung jury, 5-1 for acquittal. The jurors were quoted in the media 
saying they
felt Mr. Prince was set up. The judge called a mistrial, and the 
prosecutor
dropped the charges against him.)

August 17, 2000: At a Clearwater City Commission meeting, Mary 
DeMoss announced
that the "Foundation for Religious Tolerance" was opening a branch in
Clearwater. This "foundation" was in fact a front group for 
Scientology. Mary
DeMoss claimed that the purpose of the organization was to bring 
all the
religions in Clearwater together. In fact, the organization 
consisted of one
person, Mary DeMoss, and her orders were to carry out projects 
calculated to
destroy the reputation of the Lisa McPherson Trust and cause the 
people of
Clearwater not to want to have anything to do with it. The 
Foundation for
Religious Tolerance has also created a web site called Bigot 
Watch on which
defamatory information about members of the LMT is displayed.

August 27, 2000: Nigeria Today, an on-line newsletter, reported 
that the
Nigerian government had "gone cold" in its acceptance of the 
Fashanu Report and
the charges filed against Mr. Minton. The article stated that a 
detailed
inspection of the report revealed no evidence that Mr. Minton 
committed any
crime at all. In fact, the article disclosed, the true author of 
the report was
likely Scientology private investigator David Lee.

August 29, 2000: Mary Demoss and two male Scientologists burst 
into the Lisa
McPherson Trust reception area and began speaking loudly to the 
staff in a
harassing manner. After being asked to leave repeatedly, they 
refused to leave
the premises until they were physically pushed out of the door. 
They continued
to yell outside of the building. It was so disruptive that Ms. 
Brooks called
the police. By the time the police arrived, the Scientologists 
had left. Ms.
Brooks explained to the officers what had happened and asked if 
they would like
to see the security video of what had happened in reception. 
Neither officer
was interested. One of them, Officer Connelly, was extremely rude 
and made it
clear that he had nothing but contempt for the Lisa McPherson 
Trust. She again
asked him to watch the videotape and he snapped, "No, I don't 
want to see it."
Both officers left, having refused to make an information report 
on the
incident.

August 31, 2000: Richard Hurst, a Scientologist who worked with 
Mary DeMoss to
harass the Lisa McPherson Trust, appeared on the movie set of 
"The Profit," a
film that Mr. Minton had financed, to hand out a 27-page packet 
of discrediting
materials on Mr. Minton. Tab A stated:  "Robert Minton of the 
Lisa McPherson
Trust and a financier has had a penal complaint brought against 
him by Nigerian
authorities for money laundering, forgery of financial documents 
and fraud."
Tab B stated: "Minton has previously been arrested for assault 
against
Scientologists and has fired a shotgun at them." Tab C stated: 
"Minton along
with members of his group has been restrained from coming within 
ten feet of
Church properties in Clearwater." Tab D stated: "Jesse Prince, 
vice president
of the Lisa McPherson Trust, was recently arrested for 
cultivating marijuana at
his home." Tab E stated: "Prince has previous arrests for driving 
under the
influence, disorderly conduct, and contributing to the sexual 
delinquency of a
child." Tab F stated: "Mark Bunker of the Lisa McPherson Trust 
was arrested in
Chicago earlier this year for criminal trespass at the Church of 
Scientology of
Chicago."

September 2000: Fliers featuring the mug shot from Mr. Minton's 
Clearwater
battery arrest were stuffed into local mailboxes near the Lisa 
McPherson Trust.
Several items were listed under the photograph: "Twice arrested 
for assault;
Penal complaint filed by the government of Nigeria for charges of 
fraud, the
laundering of money and forgery of financial documents; Finances 
harassment of
members of the Church of Scientology; Profiled by NBC Dateline as 
potentially
violent." The flier also featured a mug shot of Jesse Prince from 
his August
2000 arrest. Several items were listed under his photograph as 
well: "Arrested
for cultivation of marijuana in Clearwater; Outstanding arrest 
warrant in
Colorado for violating probation; Multiple arrests for a variety 
of criminal
activity - indecent exposure, contributing to the sexual 
delinquency of a
minor, drunk driving." Underneath a photograph of Stacy Brooks 
were the
following items: "President of an organization that was enjoined from
approaching Church property in Clearwater;  Abandoned her husband 
for Bob
Minton; Has attempted to extort the Church of Scientology." Under 
a photograph
of Mark Bunker was the following information: "Arrested for 
criminal trespass;
Was enjoined by a Pinellas County judge to stay away from Church 
properties in
Clearwater; Harasses individuals by videotaping them and placing 
the tape on
the Internet." At the bottom of the flier was the following 
statement: "These
individual and their criminal behavior have no business in front 
of a Church or
harassing decent people for their religious faith. THEY ARE ALL 
BEING PAID BY
MINTON TO DO THIS!!"

September 15, 2000: As Mr. Minton began a peaceful protest in 
front of the Fort
Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, long-time OSA operative Joe Neal 
ran out of the
hotel and rammed Mr. Minton in the chest with a camera, knocking 
Mr. Minton to
the ground. Several other protesters had to pull Neal off of Mr. 
Minton to keep
him from being further assaulted. Mr. Minton was injured so badly 
that he had
to go to the emergency room of Morton Plant Hospital to receive 
oxygen. His
ribs were badly bruised and his injuries made it impossible for 
him to attend a
scheduled deposition the following Monday. Scientology tried to 
get the court
to find Mr. Minton in contempt for not appearing for his deposition.

October 10, 2000: xxxxxxxxxxxx, a former investigator for the 
U.S. Treasury
Department wrote an extensive affidavit in which he detailed Mr. 
Minton's
business dealings in Nigeria. The affidavit made it clear that 
Mr. Minton's
activities were completely legitimate and that the Fashanu Report 
was a
compilation of lies and innuendo with no substance.

October 17, 2000: A group of rock bands scheduled a concert to 
benefit the Lisa
McPherson Trust. After the announcement of the concert, Mary 
DeMoss and her
Foundation for Religious
Tolerance mailed a letter and flier to residents of Clearwater 
and surrounding
towns.

October 28, 2000: Mary DeMoss's Scientology front group, the 
Foundation for
Religious Tolerance, left a flier outside the LMT offices and 
distributed it
throughout Clearwater. In the flier the concert to benefit the 
Lisa McPherson
Trust was identified as a "hate group" and the announced host, 
Jamie Kennedy,
was characterized as an unsavory character. Jamie Kennedy, a 
performance artist
from northern California, is the great-grandson of Scientology 
founder L. Ron
Hubbard and was identifying himself as such in the promotion for 
the concert.

November 2, 2000: The Foundation for Religious Tolerance 
distributed a two-page
letter throughout Clearwater linking LMT President Stacy Brooks 
to the benefit
concert in a vulgar way.

November 30, 2000: Mary Demoss came into the Lisa McPherson Trust 
with color
photocopies of an article from the magazine "Business Age." The 
article was
entitled "Nigerian Nemesis" and was a libelous article about Mr. 
Minton and his
business dealings with the Nigerian Government.

October 29, 2000: An article appeared in the London Sunday 
Express with a
photograph of Mr. Minton next to one of Nigerian dictator Sani 
Abacha. The
article falsely claimed that the CIA had identified Mr. Minton as 
being the
mastermind behind a $4 billion money-laundering scheme that was being
investigated by the Serious Fraud Office of the British government.

November 1, 2000: Mary DeMoss wrote a letter to the Pinellas 
County Department
of Consumer Protection to tell the agency that people who made 
donations to the
Lisa McPherson Trust were being defrauded because the Lisa 
McPherson Trust was
a for-profit company.

November 1, 2000: Scientologist Robert Magness wrote a letter to 
the editor of
the St. Petersburg Times in which he said the following about Mr. 
Minton: "He
really wants only to destroy a group that in verifiable fact has 
helped hundred
of thousands, if not millions of people to live happier more 
ethical lives."

November 30, 2000: Judge Penick issued a second temporary 
injunction. Among
other things, it enjoined both sides from harassing each other in 
any way. That
evening, Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks were having dinner at a 
restaurant in Tampa
with Lisa McPherson's family members, who were in town to confer 
with Ken
Dandar, the attorney for the wrongful death case. Suddenly a private
investigator appeared at Ms. Brooks' side and thrust a copy of 
the new
injunction in her face. Ms. Brooks was frightened by the way in 
which the man
was behaving and asked him how he knew where to find her. The man 
replied that
there were OSA operatives in the restaurant who told him where 
she was. He gave
her a photograph of herself that he had been given by another OSA 
operative,
Judy Ross. He then apologized to Ms. Brooks for interrupting her 
dinner and
told her he had been ordered specifically to serve her during 
dinner so that it
would upset her.

December 1, 2000: Scientologist Larry Byrnes wrote a letter to 
the editor of
the St. Petersburg Times in which he said the following about Mr. 
Minton: "So
why does the Times give Robert Minton all this ink? Could it be 
that you are
merely a propaganda mouthpiece for the psychiatric/pharmaceutical 
cartel that
is turning our children into drugged zombies through their
label-and-drug-children program? Since Scientology is the only 
effective
opposition to their plans and has highly effective methods of 
helping children
to lead drug-free lives, this cartel is inevitably found to be 
backing people
like Minton."

December 2, 2000: Diane Stein, Director of Community Affairs for 
the Church of
Scientology of Atlanta, wrote a reply to an article in the 
Baltimore Sun titled
"Millionaire builds center in crusade to stop Church of 
Scientology." Her
letter stated: "Minton's sole purpose in being in Clearwater is 
to spread hate,
lies and bigotry against the community of 10,000 Scientologists 
who live and
work there."

December 22, 2000: Therese Minton received a notice from the 
Massachusetts
Department of Motor Vehicles. An anonymous complaint had been 
received that she
was garaging a car with New Hampshire license plates.

December 2000: Mary DeMoss delivered copies of an obscure 
magazine called
"Business Age" to the Lisa McPherson Trust, although she had been 
told
previously that she would be considered to be trespassing if she 
came into the
building again. There was an article in the magazine titled 
"Nigerian Nemesis,"
in which Mr. Minton was accused of orchestrating a billion-dollar 
buy-back
scheme to defraud the Nigerian government. Attempts to locate the 
editorial
offices of this magazine were unsuccessful, nor could the 
publisher be found.


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Ich unterstütze den Leipziger Preis 2002 für Minister Alain Vivien
http://www.leipzig-award.org/deutsch/navi_2002.html
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Alles, wovon Scientology nicht möchte, daß Sie es wissen, finden 
Sie bei http://www.xenu.net oder http://www.xenu.de - Deutsche 
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Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 14:37:11 +0200
From: Thomas Gandow <gandow@dialogzentrum.de>
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  From: Stacy Brooks (stacybrooks@lisatrust.net)
  Subject: Timeline of harassment -- work in progress
  Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
  Date: 2001-12-12 17:59:06 PST


Timeline of Scientology's Harassment of Robert S. Minton and 
Colleagues


2001
January 23, 2001: A flier with the headline "The World Bank and 
the Nigerian
secret debt buy-back schemes" was distributed to the businesses 
in downtown
Clearwater. From the text of the flier it was apparent that 
Scientology's
private investigators had been working hard to track down 
evidence against Mr.
Minton. It was equally clear that they had been unsuccessful in 
finding
anything against him. However, Scientology insisted on spinning an
ever-more-complex tale to try to implicate him in a criminal 
situation. The
flier began with this statement: "In two complex frauds, 
involving over US$ 6
billion in Nigerian funds between the years 1987-1998, Nigerian 
officials and
American banker Robert Minton filled their own pockets at the 
expense of
unsuspecting debt holders, financial institutions and Nigerian 
creditors.
Minton defended his criminal actions by claiming that he had the 
tacit approval
of the IMF and World Bank." Photographs of Nigerian dictator Sani 
Abacha,
Robert Minton and another man, Caio Koch-Weser, were also 
featured on the
flier. The text went on to explain why this man's photograph was 
included: "Mr.
Caio Koch-Weser headed the African desk of the World Bank at the 
time. His
appointment as Managing Director of the IMF was vetoed by the US 
early in 2000;
he is currently the Deputy Finance Minister of Germany.... If 
Minton is right it
would catapult the World Bank into the midst of an explosive 
situation because
one of the biggest deals Minton carried out was with the Paris 
Club of
creditors with lost billions of dollars. The Scheme itself was 
kept secret with
debt holders, financial institutions and Nigerian creditors not 
being informed
by Mr. Minton that he was buying the debts with Nigerian funds." 
It ended with
an invitation to "Visit the Internet."

February 25, 2001: On the eve of the opening of a new Scientology 
center in
Battle Creek, Michigan, the Battle Creek Enquirer published a 
story called
"Church's teaching spark a bitter debate." The writer, Matt 
Galnor, had called
Stacy Brooks for comment and had included her statements in the 
article.
Scientology spokesperson John Carmichael was asked to respond and 
made the
following response, which was also published: "I've heard what 
Stacy says and
she lies through her teeth.... It really exasperates me because 
it's so far from
the truth." Carmichael accused the Lisa McPherson Trust of being 
a "hate group"
and added, "I think anyone who makes a career out of harming a 
good group that
helps people is evil."

March 1, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
bob@cotse.com posted a
message on the newsgroup alt.religion.com titled "What Has Become 
of Minton."
The text of the message was as follows: "What has become of 
Minton since he was
found guilty of criminal contempt, fined and placed on a lengthy 
six month
probation by Judge Penick? It didn't go so well for Minton, as 
according to
historical precedent the judge put the big head on a pike to make 
it clear that
the henchmen of the big head on the pike had better pay 
attention. I believe I
heard it reported that during the contempt hearing the Judge had 
said that he
wanted to make sure that he was punishing the right person. Well, 
obviously,
the judge must have found that Minton
was the right person to punish. Clearly, then, Minton is a 
liability to the
bigots and thus his
disappearing from the scene. Which raises the question: Has Stacy 
also punished
Minton? Now everyone knows that Stacy feels that LMT has serious 
PR problems
because of the criminal activity of Prince, Minton and other RICO 
associates of
LMT. Minton, LMT and its employees have been hit with sanctions 
at least 9
times in the past two months. Quite a flappy record for LMT and 
Stacy's concept
of LMT's pristine PR. So, is she making Bob do hard time, as a 
means of
rehabilitating him? This observer thinks the answer is yes."

March 15, 2001: Jesse Prince, Stacy Brooks and Robert Minton 
traveled to Paris
for a hearing concerning lawsuits that each of them had filed against
Scientology in France. The suits were for libelous statements 
that had been
published in the French version of Scientology's propaganda 
magazine, Freedom.
After the hearing, Mr. Prince returned to the United States 
alone, while Mr.
Minton and Ms. Brooks continued on to the United States. Upon his 
arrival at
Dulles International Airport, Mr. Prince found that several 
customs agents were
waiting for him as he entered customs. The agents detained Mr. 
Prince, broke
the lock on his suitcase and searched his luggage, had him empty 
out his
pockets, and brought in a German shepherd to sniff him for drugs. 
Mr. Prince
was able to find out from the agents that they had received an 
anonymous tip
that he was carrying illegal drugs into the country. The agents 
were able to
ascertain that the tip they had received was false. Mr. Prince had a
substantial amount of cash in his jacket pocket, although less 
than the $10,000
limit that would require him to report it on arrival in the 
United States.
Despite the fact that he was not required to report the money, 
Mr. Prince was
taken into a back room and detained for more than an hour while 
the agents
counted and recounted the money and questioned him about why he 
had it. Mr.
Prince patiently explained that he was in the habit of carrying 
cash when he
traveled. Unable to find any reason to detain Mr. Prince any 
longer, the agents
finally released him. This was the third time Mr. Prince had been 
detained
based on anonymous tips that he was carrying drugs.

March 27, 2001: Mr. Minton had filed a libel suit against 
Scientology in
Germany for publishing false and defamatory statements in the 
German equivalent
of their Freedom Magazine, known as Freiheit, about his business 
dealings in
Nigeria. A Berlin court found Scientology guilty of libel and 
ordered them to
cease and desist publication of these libelous statements, with a 
heavy fine if
they violated the judge's order.

March 30, 2001: The Scientology attorney firm of Moxon and Kobrin 
sent a letter
to Lisa McPherson Trust attorney John Merrett accusing the LMT of 
violating the
injunction when a film crew from Madrid came to Clearwater to do 
a documentary
about Scientology. The letter said, in part, "The sum and 
substance of the
complaint is that reporters from Madrid have been coming and 
going from the LMT
in attempted disguise while harassing the church, violating 
Florida law, and
violating the injunction, in addition to similar violations of 
law in Madrid.
LMT's agent from Madrid admitted to the police that he had a 
camera in his bag
and was caught on videotape by a security camera attempting to 
infiltrate the
Church in Florida with his hidden camera. Such conduct violates 
F.S.A.  SS
934.03 - in addition to the injunction entered against your 
clients. The
purpose of the letter is to give you and your clients an 
opportunity to explain
their conduct - in short, to provide reasons why these acts are 
not further
contempt arising out of this new apparent violation of the 
court's order." In
fact, the LMT had no connection to this Spanish film crew 
whatsoever.

April 12, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
relay@cotse.com
posted a message on the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology (ARS) 
titled
"Nigeria provides UK with documents/Minton." The text of the 
message was as
follows: "... I thought that the exposure of Minton's participation 
in the
looting of Nigeria which began a year ago and has been reported 
in dozens of
international news media since was widely known. Obviously it is 
not known to
you. Try and read up on it as there were many posts about this on 
ARS. Minton's
weak attempts to sue for libel have utterly failed (which he knew 
they would)
and the Nigerians are moving in on him closer and closer. And 
Robert Minton is
the guy who posts now and then on this newsgroup, who deserted 
his wife and
kids for paid mistress, and who runs a for-profit company under 
the all too
obvious guise of a "Trust" in Florida, and who is currently under 
probation. He
is being watched by everyone all the time because if he makes one 
wrong move he
goes into the slammer. And that is very likely why he is 
currently in hiding:
he does not want to be caught doing something rash or illegal. A 
"hot head on
the edge" is what Hockenberry from NBC/Dateline said about him."

April 20, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist posted a message on 
the newsgroup
alt.religion.scientology in which he characterized Mr. Minton as 
"insane" and
twisted his involvement in the Lisa McPherson wrongful death case 
as a sordid
investment scheme: "Ken Dandar is the Tampa ambulance chaser who 
has been paid
well over a million dollars by Mr. Minton. In return Dandar was 
to tell bald
faced lies at every turn and even file them in court. Minton's 
now extinguished
dream of a payout was the motivation for this litigation 
investment scheme.
Minton's private paid group of deadbeats is designated the LMT. 
They have been
paid over a million dollars. Their role in Minton's investment 
scheme was to
try to create hate and violence.... Why all of this? Mr. Minton is 
insane. Has
been all this life. His insanity has slowed but has not stopped 
the emergence
of the truth. At this point, Minton's attorney Ken Dandar has 
collapsed the
civil case "beyond the point of no return". (That means Minton 
won't ever see
one red cent from his litigation investment scheme. Instead he 
will pay out
millions for a fight against truth he could never win.) Dandar 
and Minton tell
lies and that is the reason the case is now a disaster and is 
blowing up in
their faces. Yesterday Dandar & Merrett appeared in Court. (Both 
are total
sleazebag attorneys - if you get a chance, you should really see 
them in person
some day if they're around long enough.) The lies ended with the 
Judge's Order
to turn over an audiotape that has been kept hidden by the Minton 
attorneys for
years but is now available as a public record document with the 
Florida
Department of Law Enforcement. The tape proves that Minton 
attorneys told bald
faced lies in the civil litigation.... At Minton's direction, 
Dandar went to
degraded depths to fabricate and manufacture lies to prevent this 
tape from
coming out and has done so for 3 years. The Judge saw through it 
all and
ordered the tape be turned over. It's a slow process getting the 
truth out and
the liars exposed, but it's taking place and Mr. Minton is ending 
up paying for
it."

April 21, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
relay@cotse.com
posted a message on the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology titled 
"Bob Minton
-- Beyond the point of no return and paying for it." The text of 
the message
was as follows: "Thank you for this overview which puts 
everything into an
understandable perspective. Your reference to Minton and Dandar 
as insane and
being bald face liars is yet an understatement. They are 
calculating crooks and
I hope the laws of the land will catch up to them. Minton is 
currently under
probation and as soon as he violates the law it will mean that he 
broke the
probation regulations and will have to go in front of the judge 
again, and that
will mean jail time for him. Minton needs to re-pay the church. 
And I don't
mean just attorney fees and costs for the senseless litigation 
but punitive
damages like $10-50 million with which the church could expand 
their delivery
facilities even further. And while at it, he could be made to pay 
$1-2 million
to the City of Clearwater for the overwork he caused them."

April 26, 2001: Jesse Prince received an anonymous fax at the 
Lisa McPherson
Trust that indicated a man named David Amos might be willing to 
provide
information to Mr. Prince about harassment of Mr. Prince by 
Scientology
operatives. Mr. Prince was able to reach Mr. Amos by telephone. 
Mr. Amos agreed
to meet with Mr. Prince in Memphis, Tennessee. That night, Mr. 
Prince drove to
Memphis, accompanied by xxxxxxxxxxxxx, a former Treasury 
Department investigator
who was working with the Lisa McPherson Trust to document 
Scientology's
criminal conduct. Mr. xxxxxxxxxxx felt that Mr. Prince should not meet 
with Mr. Amos
alone.

April 27, 2001: Mr. Amos agreed to meet with Mr. Prince alone 
while Mr. xxxxxxxxxxx
watched them from his car less than twenty feet away. Mr. Amos 
told Mr. Prince
that he had worked as a private investigator for Scientology from 
the fall of
1998 until the winter of 2000. He said that Scientology attorney 
Kendrick Moxon
had told him that Mr. Prince and Mr. Minton were involved in a 
child slavery
ring and that Scientology was trying to expose them to rescue the 
children. Mr.
Amos said he felt that Moxon had told him this story in order to 
motivate him
to commit illegal acts to try to catch Mr. Prince. Mr. Amos 
admitted to Mr.
Prince that he had illegally wiretapped the telephone in Mr. 
Prince's Chicago
apartment at the end of 1998. He also admitted that he had passed on
information obtained via this illegal wiretap to his Scientology 
handlers. Mr.
Amos also said that he had set up illegal surveillance equipment 
to monitor Mr.
Prince, Ms. Brooks and Mark Bunker in their homes in Clearwater, 
Florida. Mr.
Amos reluctantly agreed to show Mr. Prince where the surveillance 
equipment had
been set up. However, he later refused to travel to Clearwater 
because he was
afraid of what the Scientologists would do to him if they found 
out. A report
of this meeting was sent to the FBI in Florida.

May 7, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist used the name 
lmt_watch@my-deja.com to
post a message in response to something LMT staffer Mark Bunker 
had posted.
"Hey Bunker, from what you're saying you admit to breaking the 
law. It appears
what you declined to do was to simply "Follow The Law". That is 
the now famous
statement your boss Mr. Minton declared out loud with a bullhorn 
during one of
his foolish pickets which landed him with a criminal record and 
Probation for
the next 6 months with the Salvation Army. The only deceptive and 
abusive
practices being perpetrated in Clearwater are coming from the LMT 
and your
antics around town with police and security personnel trying to 
create
incidents that you can capture on video tape for
another one of your hate filled conspiracy videos."

May 7, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist posted a message on the 
newsgroup
alt.religion.scientology in which he implied that Mr. Minton had 
something to
do with the disappearance of Joan Woods, the medical examiner who 
initially
reported that Lisa McPherson had died from severe dehydration but 
changed her
autopsy report five years later, under pressure from Scientology. 
Her action in
changing the autopsy report forced the State of Florida to drop 
their charges
against Scientology. The post was titled "Joan Wood mission" and 
stated: "Check
Minton's backyard. It wouldn't be the first time a dead body has 
turned up
there. Minton had the most to lose when Wood came out and told 
the truth of
what really happened."

May 9, 2001: Gerard Renna, Director of Special Affairs in Boston, 
wrote a
letter to J. Scott Currier, the police chief in Sandown, New 
Hampshire, where
Mr. Minton lives. The purpose of the letter was clearly to cause 
the police
officer to become alarmed about the possibility that Mr. Minton 
might pose a
threat to the safety of the Sandown townspeople: "Enclosed please 
find a copy
of the Judgment issued against Mr. Minton on February 21, 2001 
for willfully
violating a Court injunction that required Mr. Minton to stay at 
least ten feet
away from Church property and Church members at our religious 
retreat in
Florida. As Mr. Minton is known to have guns, I have also 
enclosed a copy of
his six-month probation order for your information. If you have 
any questions,
you may contact me at the address below or by calling my office 
at (617)
266-3841."

May 15, 2001: Mark Bunker attended the grand opening of "Gaslight 
Alley." This
was a project to renovate an alley in Clearwater that is right 
next to a
Scientology building. Mr. Bunker attended in order to document on 
videotape the
fact that Scientology was in control of the entire project. An 
anonymous
Scientologist using the name lmt_watch@my-deja.com posted a 
message on the
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology in which Mark Bunker was 
portrayed as a hate
monger simply for being present at the event: "Bunker purposely 
missed
reporting on the fantastic event. Great food, great people (over 
300), repeated
validation to the Church of Scientology by the Who's Who of 
Clearwater. This
also shows how Bunker is so pathetically biased and filled with 
revenge and
hate toward virtually all members of the community outside the 
LMT doors. And
accordingly, the LMT presence was despised although everyone 
tried the best
they could to ignore Bunker who stuck out like a dead cat at a 
wedding. Bunker
squirmed into a little corner and stood up with his Mintoncam 
held to his face
during the entire grand opening event, truly offensive to all in 
attendance as
he scowled out across the gathering. The man is just plain rude. 
No wonder he
is despised by the police from coast to coast. He just looks 
angry all of the
time and dresses like a pig. One visitor looked at him and 
remarked "What is
that -- Nazi youth?" The other responded, "You have it right 
except the youth
part."

May 17, 2001: Ben Shaw wrote a letter to the Salvation Army 
Correctional
Services alleging that Mr. Minton violated his probation by 
helping aid a
fleeing criminal (Keith Henson). The text of the letter was as 
follows:

"Robert S. Minton is currently on probation under your auspices 
after his
conviction for criminal contempt for his violation of an 
injunction issued by
the Honorable Thomas Penick. Mr. Minton was convicted February 
21, 2001 for his
violation of that injunction following a week of hearings on an 
Order to Show
Cause issued by Judge Penick.
         One of the terms of his probation is: "You will live and 
remain at
liberty without violating any law or any injunction (temporary of 
permanent)
entered by the Court. A conviction in a court of law shall not be 
necessary in
order for such a violation to constitute a violation of your 
probation."
         One of Mr. Minton's associates, a member of the Advisory 
Board of the
Lisa McPherson Trust, a for-profit company of which Mr. Minton is 
the Chairman
of the Board, is H. Keith Henson. Mr. Henson was also a 
respondent in the
hearing on the Orders to Show Cause before Judge Penick, but was 
acquitted.
However, in a separate action in criminal court in Riverside County,
California, on April 26, 2001, Mr. Henson was found guilty 
following a jury
trial of a violation of Section 422.6 of the California Penal 
Code, also known
as the California hate crime law, for his actions which were 
found to be
interfering, with threat of force, with the free exercise of the 
Scientology
religion. (Tab A)
         On the day of his conviction Mr. Henson and his wife 
picketed the court
house with a sign displaying the phone number of the Lisa 
McPherson Trust in
Clearwater. (Tab B) His association with Mr. Minton and the Trust is
undisputed.
         Mr. Henson was ordered to report to sentencing on May 
16, 2001. Instead
he fled to Canada. A warrant has been issued for his arrest for 
this most
recent breach of California law (failure to appear). (Tab C)
         On the same day, when questioned in an Internet 
newsgroup as to whether
he had assisted Mr. Henson to evade justice "after the fact", 
your probationer,
Mr. Minton, placed a posting on the newsgroup bragging that, "I 
helped him
(Henson) escape BEFORE the Fact". (Tab D) And in another posting 
which Mr.
Minton directed to Mr. Henson, he asked, "You have enough money 
up there in
Canada? If not, just let me know." (Tab E)
         Aiding and abetting the commission of a crime is a 
violation of
California Penal Code S 312,
All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether it be 
felony or
misdemeanor, and whether they directly commit that act 
constituting the
offense, or aid and abet in the commission, or, not being 
present, have advised
and encouraged its commission, and all persons counseling, 
advising or
encouraging children under the age of fourteen years, lunatics or 
idiots, to
commit any crime, or who, by fraud, contrivance, or force, 
occasion the
drunkenness of another for the purpose of causing him to commit 
any crime, or
who, by threats, menaces, command, or coercion, compel another to 
commit any
crime, are principals in any crime so committed." (Tab F)
         Mr. Minton therefore appears to be in violation of the 
terms of his
probation. I assume that you will take appropriate actions in 
dealing with his
matter."

Mr. Minton's attorney, Bruce Howie, filed a motion for an order 
to show cause
before Judge Penick as a result of this letter.

May 18, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
kewyatt@apexmail.com
posted a message on the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology titled 
"The Cult of
Minton Strikes Back" in which he characterized Mr. Minton as 
unstable and
irrational: "I make some posts containing facts about Mr. Minton 
and the
defenders arise with shining swords ready to do battle against 
any who dare to
attack their king. They defend him when he shoots at (oh, sorry, 
"over")
peaceful protesters, they defend him when he dumps his wife and 
kids for the
woman he's been having an affair with, they defend him when he is 
arrested for
assault and they defend him when he accuses some innocent woman 
of being a
whore and a spy (well, at least less of them defended him over 
that one). It
seems an obviously unstable and irrational individual who is 
currently on
psychiatric medication can do no wrong when he is paying your rent."

May 18, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
lmtbadpr@cotse.com
posted a message on the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology titled 
"Brooks PR is
very bad" in which he reproduced a column that had appeared in a 
local
community newspaper called "Clearwater Countryside Citizen 
Publications." The
man who wrote the column was found to have strong business 
connections with
Scientologists in Clearwater. He wrote, in part: "I try not to 
get overly
excited about what people say or do to win political elections or 
influence
other people's decisions. I accept that people, whose only 
concern is to see
that their viewpoints prevail, often distort the truth....  That 
said, two things
did upset me last month. The first was when a lawyer by the name 
of John
Merrett, representing a group that is critical of the Church of 
Scientology,
started a brouhaha when the Citizens for a Better Clearwater 
began selling
bricks to be used to beautify the Gas Light Alley on Cleveland 
Street.
Individuals purchased bricks with their names and/or sayings on 
them be laid in
that alley. The problem around the group Mr. Merrett represents 
insisted on
being able to purchase bricks with names and/or sayings on them 
that would be
used to inflame emotions and further their own political agenda. 
Mr. Merrett,
on behalf of the group, threatened to sue the city and the 
Citizens For A
Better Clearwater if they did not allow his group to purchase 
bricks. Citizens
For A Better Clearwater agreed to allow the brick purchases and 
that should
have been that. Later, in an article in the St. Petersburg Times, 
Mr. Merrett
says he was glad that the issue was resolved, but is also quoted 
as saying,
"although it would have been nice to see them squirm." If that 
statement does
not outrage you as much as it does me, it should. I don't pretend 
to know
anything about the group Mr. Merrett represents, nor do I care 
about their feud
with Scientology. This is between them. However, when citizens of 
Clearwater,
whose only agenda is to try and do good for the community, are 
brought into the
dispute because " it would be nice to seem them squirm" that is 
something else
entirely. If the group continues to employ Mr. Merrett as their 
attorney I will
understand them a lot better, and I am sure the citizens of 
Clearwater will as
well."

May 22, 2001:Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks were served with subpoenas 
in the Mike
McLaughry v. David Morse case at Mr. Minton's gate as he arrived 
from Boston at
the Tampa airport. How did the process server know when and 
through what gate
Mr. Minton would arrive?

May 22, 2001: Mr. Minton was served another subpoena for 
deposition, this time
in the Dell Leibreich case.  He was served at the Lisa McPherson 
Trust as he
went to his car.

May 24, 2001: Gerard Renna, Director of Special Affairs for 
Boston, wrote a
letter to the FBI in Boston with cc's to the Boston Police Hate 
Crime Unit and
the Chief of Police of Sandown, New Hampshire, where Mr. Minton 
lives. The
letter stated the following:

Over the years we have been informing your agency concerning hate 
crimes
against our Church by Mr. Robert S. Minton Jr. and associates. 
Minton, is
currently on probation after his conviction for criminal contempt 
for his
violation of an injunction issued by a Florida Judge.
It will probably be no great surprise to find that one of 
Minton's associates
Keith Henson on April 26, 2001, was found guilty following a jury 
trial of a
violation of Section 422.6 of the California Penal Code, also 
known as the
California Hate Crime Law, for his actions which were found to be 
interfering,
with threat of force, with the free exercise of the Scientology 
religion.
Henson fled the country before sentencing and currently has a 
warrant out for
his arrest. Minton is making known on the Internet that he is 
assisting Henson
to evade justice and bragging in his posting, "I helped him 
(Henson) escape
before the fact".
I am enclosing a letter sent to Minton's probation officer 
regarding violation
of his probation by assisting Henson. I further would like to 
inform you that
Minton lives in New Hampshire and Boston and that it is likely, 
due to his
arrogance for the law, that he might harbor this fugitive of the 
United States
at his home.
I am deeply concerned with the attached Internet posting by 
Minton to an
anti-Scientology Internet news group, "BTW (by the way) Keith, 
that missile
codes are safe but in case anything happens to us I'll PGP them 
below for the
ARSCC team (passphrase of - 05-11-2001 will apply): "and posted 
the PGP key.  I
would not have taken this so seriously except that when you put 
this all
together it shows continue pattern of increase violence by these 
individuals
towards Scientology and there blatant disregard for the law. 
There has been a
good deal of assistance by government and police agencies to 
protect our
Constitutional rights by those who wish to hard our religion. 
Thank you for
your consideration."

May 24, 2001: The judge in Jesse Prince's trial for marijuana 
possession
declared a mistrial after the jury deadlocked 5-1 for acquittal. 
After a
two-day trial, the jurors felt Mr. Prince had been set up by four 
Scientology
private investigators in an effort to turn him into a criminal.

May 25, 2001: The day after the judge declared a mistrial, the 
prosecutor
announced that the charges were being dropped against him and the 
State would
not retry the case.

May 25, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
lmtbadpr@cotse.com
posted a message on the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology titled 
"The LMT -
What Assholes!" in which he stated: "The LMT led by the notorious 
Bob Minton
arrived in Clearwater a year ago. Within days they were snubbed 
forever by the
community because of their rude and crude behavior. They were 
noticed as a hate
group that practiced incredibly bad manners. Each one of them did 
so under
Minton's direction: Brooks attacked the city government. (Now 
they are
attacking the State); Bunker attacked the Police; Jacobsen 
attacked the people
who were trying to beautify downtown; and Prince attacked the 
parishioners of
the Church with profane harassment. The LMT is nothing more than 
a foul smell
in town these days. I don't know who is the bigger asshole. 
Minton or the LMT
collectively."

May 25, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
lmtbadpr@cotse.com
posted a message on the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology titled 
"The Jesse
Prince Retrial" in which he stated: "The only guarantee we're 
going to get out
of Mr. Minton and his LMT is more lies. That's a fact. Minton 
portrays himself,
Jesse Prince and the rest of the LMT as poor victims in society. 
What he can't
seem to reconcile is that he and the rest of the LMTers break the 
law and are
held accountable because they are not capable of controlling 
themselves.
Minton, the CEO of the LMT, was just convicted for breaking the 
law in Florida
for his belligerent conduct of harassment. Keith Henson, an LMT 
Advisor, was
just convicted on the California Hate Crime statute for his 
harassment. Minton
lies. He has a huge multi-million dollar investment in litigation 
against the
COS and he's burned that he's on probation and Prince is 
prosecuted for his
illegal drug use. Minton places the blame elsewhere but he fails 
to see himself
as the perfect example of a religious bigot unable to control 
himself. He's
sick and so are the rest of the bigots at the LMT. You're facing 
the music for
your own actions Minton. Why don't you just grow up or go away."

June 5, 2001: Connie T. Dugan, head of the Salvation Army 
Correctional
Services, responded to Scientologist Ben Shaw's letter in which 
he accused Mr.
Minton of violating his probation. Ms. Dugan explained that there 
would be no
violation unless Mr. Minton was actually charged with a crime by 
the police
department or state attorney's office or if Judge Penick found 
that he was in
violation of the injunction.

June 6, 2001: Jeff Jacobsen was followed by a Scientology private 
investigator.
Jeff turned off to a side road to see if the car would follow him 
and it did.
Jeff then turned on another side road and stopped. The car 
following Jeff
stopped, backed up in the road and drove in the opposite 
direction upon seeing
Jeff pull over. The plate number was A60 SPV and was leased from 
Ford Credit
Title. This was one of approximately fifty reports Mr. Jacobsen 
made about
specific instances of being followed in Clearwater.

June 13, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name Public 
Anonymous
Account (remailer@xganon.com) posted a message titled "LMT 
Accomplishments of
2000-2001." He listed a number of things, as follows: "1. They 
have aided many
known felons. 2. They have helped many convicted felons elude 
justice. 3. They
have likely committed other unpublicized crimes that they are 
unwilling to
admit. 4. They have slandered charitable organizations. 5. They 
have promoted
hate, intolerance and bigotry. 6. They have tastelessly set up 
shop near the
homes of those they despise, akin to a Nazi establishing camp in 
Israel. 7.
They have promoted illegal drug use and abuse, and spoken out against
charitable organizations opposed to such abuse.        8. They 
have lied
outrageously about crimes committed by their constituents and 
those they aid in
vain attempts to mask their fundamentally criminal nature."

June 15, 2001: In the FSO v. Dell Leibreich case, Judge W. 
Douglas Baird found
Mr. Minton in contempt of court for failure to appear for a 
deposition that had
been scheduled for March 1, 2001, in response to a subpoena 
served on February
9, 2001. He was further "ordered and adjudged that he shall 
appear and respond
to said subpoena and that he shall produce all non- privileged 
documents and a
privilege log of all purported privileged documents at the 
commencement of
deposition. Failure to comply will result in a fine of $1000 per 
day until such
time that he complies or until such time that he shall be 
incarcerated for
failure to appear."

June 16, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
Bremenium posted a
message on the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology titled "LMT Hall of
Infamy-Online." He listed all the web sites where Scientologists 
have posted
scurrilous material about Mr. Minton and the staff of the LMT:

Brooks, Stacy
Finding the Fact and Order Concerning Deposition
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdFFORM2a.html
Failure to appeals against this order
http://www.bigotwatch.net/11circuit.html
http://www.bigotwatch.net/Lazzara1.html
Hit with sanctions for contempt
http://www.bigotwatch.net/BMSanctions1.html

Bunker, Mark
Criminal History
http://www.bigotwatch.net/mb.html

LMT, Inc.
Legal Losses
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdJM01.html
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdJM03.html
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdJM05.html
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdJM06.html
Contempt and Sanctions
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdFFORM3a.html
Witness tampering, intimidation and improper payments to witnesses
http://www.bigotwatch.net/CounterClaim1.html
More Sanctions for Contempt
http://www.bigotwatch.net/BMSanctions3.html

Minton, Mr. Minton
Criminal History
http://www.bigotwatch.net/rm.html
Found Guilty - Fined and given 6-months probation
http://www.bigotwatch.net/Guilty!.html
Sunday Express article regarding Nigerian debt payback scheme
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd11.html
Nigerian Complaint Against Minton
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd13.html
Business Age Feature Article About Minton's Debt Buy Back Schemes
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd14.html
LMT, Inc. Legal Losses
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdJM01.html
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdJM03.html
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdJM05.html
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdJM06.html
Findings of Fact and Order- contempt & sanctions
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdFFORM1a.html
Order to Show Cause Regarding Contempt
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdOSC1a.html
Order on Motion to compel Robert Minton to Answer Questions...
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdBsnOrd1a.html
More Sanctions for contempt
http://www.bigotwatch.net/BMSanctions3.html
Mr. Minton Minton arrested in Boston
(Documentation) http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd01.html
(Video) http://www.bigotwatch.net/footage.html
Mr. Minton Minton attempts to incite a confrontation (Video)
http://www.bigotwatch.net/footage.html
Mr. Minton Minton attacks Scientologist in Clearwater (Video)
http://www.bigotwatch.net/footage.html
Mr. Minton Minton slow motion battery (Video)
http://www.bigotwatch.net/footage.html
Minton loses it! (Video)
http://www.bigotwatch.net/footage.html
Dateline interview (Video)
http://www.bigotwatch.net/footage.html
Minton Harasses Clearwater Police (Video)
http://www.bigotwatch.net/footage.html
Minton threatens process server (Video)
http://www.bigotwatch.net/footage.html

Prince, Jesse
Criminal History
http://www.bigotwatch.net/jp.html
Arrest affidavit for cultivation of Marijuana
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd05.html
Prince arrested for drunken driving
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd06.html
Prince Disorderly Conduct
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd07.html
Articles on Jesse Prince's Marijuana Arrest
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd08.html
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd08a.html
Drug charge against Prince
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prdJPDA01.html
Prince Arrested for Statutory Rape
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd09.html
Prince Search Warrant
http://www.bigotwatch.net/prd12.html
Kiss your mama with that mouth?
http://www.bigotwatch.net/footage.html

June 18, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name
sleddog-no-spam@cotse.com posted a message titled "Minton found 
in Contempt of
Court - Again." The text of the message was as follows:

"Bigotwatch says it all. Another Judge has found Minton in 
contempt of court.

"Just as the LMT is condemned in Clearwater, Florida, the United 
States and
Europe for their obnoxious criminal conduct, harassment and 
practice of
religious bigotry, so is Mr. Minton found in Contempt of Court 
once again for
violating Court Orders. Not only has Minton been found in 
Contempt again, this
time he has been ordered to pay $1000 a day should he continue 
his utter
refusal to uphold the laws of the land.

"When will these guys ever learn that crime doesn't pay and to 
just tell the
truth? Of course they have filthy dirty laundry but that does not 
excuse their
constant refusal to follow the law. Minton is already in the hole 
over
$1,000,000 for this type of conduct along with his other 
$5,000,000 investments
in hatred flushing down the toilet. Why doesn't Mr. Minton just 
FOLLOW THE
LAW?? It's quite apparent that he and the rest of the LMT staff 
are unable to
tell the truth, the recent Prince trial proved that. (LMT 
Executive Director
refused to take the stand in his own defense because he would 
have to either
perjure himself or admit to continuous illegal drug use for years.)"

June 22, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
sleddog@cotse.com
posted a message titled "Judge ends LMT charade in civil 
lawsuit." The text of
the message was as follows:

"The Judge presiding over Minton's McPherson civil lawsuit has 
ruled a death
blow to the case. With an unprecedented 49 page Order, Judge 
Frank Quesada has
ruled into fact and law and once and for all, based on mountains of
uncontroverted evidence, that Lisa McPherson loved Scientology 
and never wanted
to leave it. Minton's blood thirsty LMT ratbags have been 
defanged as their
poisonous venom spews into their faces.

"The direct testimony of every family member of Lisa, her friends 
and every
expert witness that Minton put forward, such as Prince and Vaughn 
Young, and
his hired gun psychiatrists, was used by the Judge to clearly 
show that the
bogus and deceitful lies told, repeatedly and spread by Minton, 
his pack of
criminals at the LMT and his attorney's have never had any basis 
in fact.
Instead, the exact opposite was found.  Everything that was said 
bad about the
Church and Scientologist's help for Lisa was false as it was only 
intended to
support a lawsuit based on knowingly told lies.

"The Judge also delivered the final blow to Jesse Prince's career 
(as if he
ever had one as he never got off the starting block short of 
making a quarter
of a million dollars in blood money from his master Minton) when 
he ruled his
testimony is not only inadmissible but didn't even say what he 
claimed it to
say.

"Somebody needs to post it."

June 26, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
sleddog@cotse.com
posted a message titled "Minton Suppressing of Free Speech; 
What's really going
on inside Minton's bunker." The text of the message was as follows:

"Minton and Brooks do not allow for the truth inside or outside 
of the LMT
as it discredits all of the lies they have told in the civil 
litigation.
Minton is the SP of free speech inside and outside of the LMT.

"Brooks, Bunker and Jacobsen have been asked repeatedly on this 
newsgroup to
tell us and show us what is actually going on in the McPherson case
litigation.  They could easily walk a few blocks from their 
bunker to the
courthouse and get some documents from the court file and post 
them but
they don't.  Minton won't allow it.

"Minton finally responded yesterday from pressure by critics who 
questioned
why Jacobsen only has the First Amended Complaint on his page vs. 
the
actual 5th Amended Complaint.  (BTW what does Jacobsen do all day 
with
himself?)  Minton responded by trying to blow another smoke 
screen over
this newsgroup by claiming an ongoing "frustration with Ken 
Dandar" which
prevents him or the LMT from obtaining public record court 
documents.

"So why does Minton really refuse to allow his organization to 
post the
court documents.   Minton claims that Ken Dandar prefers to keep the
documents off the Internet because Scientology makes a stink and 
hammers
him in court and he hates that.  The real reason is that Minton 
hasn't won
anything in his case and has been hammered continuously as the lies
embedded in Dandar's allegations and motions have been exposed 
and proven
false one after the other.  Minton, Brooks and Dandar have lost 
so heavily
that Minton must now pay out millions in damages, fees and costs 
as the
case disintegrates and Minton is ordered to pay $1000 a day in 
sanctions
for avoiding deposition to answer questions that reveal he is 
running the
case as an investment scam.  The proof is all contained in court 
documents
readily available as public records.

"Minton, Brooks, Prince, Bunker & Jacobsen simply don't have any 
way to put
a favorable spin on the way the McPherson case has gone for them 
since the
biggest lies from the criminal case and the case itself was 
thrown out a
year ago.  All of their lies just cannot withstand the truth. 
This is
something that Minton won't tell you about as he is psychotic on the
subject of the truth.

"Minton complains '50% of the bullshit of every hearing in the 
civil case'
is about him.  It is actually more like 100% because the other 
50% Minton
won't admit to are the lies he has told.

"It is left up to Bigotwatch to bring you the facts, while Minton 
pays
dearly another month's salary to the staff in his bunker - 
Brooks, Prince,
Bunker, Jacobsen, Summers et.al - to continue to suppress the 
truth.

"See the latest addition at 
www.bigotwatch.net/publicrecorddocuments.html
displaying the recent summary judgment dismissing the plaintiffs' 
false
imprisonment claim in the McPherson civil litigation.

"While others whine, cry and lie, Bigotwatch gives you the facts and
documents to back them up.

June 26, 2001: Mr. Minton's new probation officer, under pressure 
from
Scientology, ordered Mr. Minton to register all of his guns. Mr. 
Minton
informed her that New Hampshire does not have a provision to 
register weapons
beyond the initial ownership papers, but she persisted in her 
demand. Mr.
Minton turned over ownership of the guns to Ms. Brooks until his 
probation was
terminated on August 20, 2001.

August 2, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name
dexter_meredith@hotmail.com (Dexterrr) posted a message in which 
he detailed
Mr. Minton's psychiatric history and included a child 
psychologist his children
had seen. The text of the message follows:

"Minton has been under extensive psychiatric care throughout his 
life.
He has been seen for treatment by at least five psychs.

"Madison Sanatorium:  In about 1963 Minton was sent to this mental
facility after a violent falling out with his father.  It is not 
known
what psychs treated him at this sanatorium.

"Doctor Saeger: Minton and his then wife, Cynthia Wharton, saw him in
NYC at a mental clinic circa 1977/78.  Minton was diagnosed with
bi-polar personality disorder and was taking drugs to treat it.

"Jennifer Rathbun:  Mass General and McLeans associated.  She is a
child psych.  Her husband is a psych at Harvard.

"Doctor Robert Abernethy:  Mass General psychiatrist most recently
treating Minton in Boston.  Studied and worked at Eric Lindemann
Center where he was the director of their Freedom Trail Clinic.

"Doctor Terrence Real:  Trendy psych in Cambridge; expert on 
Prozac and
on male depression.

"The insane sometimes don't know what they're doing."

July 8, 2001: Bruce Howie filed a motion for an order to show 
cause and motion
for modification and in camera review or early termination of 
probation. This
was regarding the Injunction and the following harassment faced 
by Mr. Minton
at the hands of the Scientology: 1) the sending of a letter 
written by a
representative of the Church of Scientology Flag Service 
Organization to Mr.
Minton's probation officer, with copies to the court and Mr. 
Minton's counsel
documenting alleging that there was a violation by Mr. Minton of 
his probation;
2) the sending of a letter by an employee of the Church of 
Scientology of
Boston to a New Hampshire police department, forwarding copies of the
injunction and that terms of Mr. Minton's probation; and 3) the 
sending of a
letter, by the same employee of the Church of Scientology of 
Boston, to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, submitting information about an 
apparent
probation violation of the conditions of Mr. Minton's probation."

July 18, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name 
lmtbadpr@cotse.com
posted the following message to the newsgroup 
alt.religion.scientology:

"Why would the LMT allow evidence of their involvement (direct 
supervision) of
illegal electronic surveillance of law enforcement officers get 
into the hands
of the police? A few months ago two Spanish El Mundo TV reporters 
were
sponsored by the LMT while in Clearwater to film a show. The 
reporters
obviously conducted their business in and out of the LMT while in 
Clearwater.

"They covertly made an audio and video record of two Clearwater 
Police Officers
warning them they would be conducting illegal surveillance if the 
bag they were
carrying concealed a hidden recorder. The denied it, yet the 
illegal tape was
aired recently on Spanish TV, thereby exposing and documenting 
the crime. (a
felony under Fla stat 934.01)

"The Clearwater police already issued a warning to Bunker when he 
openly video
and audio taped a police officer without his permission. This 
time it was done
covertly and denying it at the same time.

"And from what I hear the same police officer who warned Bunker 
has the tape of
the Spanish show which clearly shows the El Mundo journalists 
coming in  and
out of the LMT and then covertly recording the police. (They 
couldn't even get
in the Church to commit the crime so they just did it on the 
police! What
idiots!)

"And this police officer is apparently the one who has the case.

"Can't wait for the fireworks!

"The LMT criminal record is growing. Who's going to pay the bill 
to defend this
one?

"P.S. This sounds like a violation of the injunction too - El 
Mundo reporters
acting in participation with the LMT.

August 07, 2001: An anonymous Scientologist using the name
lmt_watch@my-deja.com posted the following message to the newsgroup
alt.religion.scientology:

"I've got one question for Bob Minton's Trust:

"What is Mark Bunker, Jeff Jacobsen and Jesse Prince even doing 
now to earn
their daily bread from the almighty Minton since they can't even 
talk to a
Scientologist in Clearwater anymore let alone picket in front of 
the Fort
Harrison, anywhere along the coveted Watterson Avenue or
surprise anyone without permission from the Clearwater Police?

"PERMANENT INJUNCTION

"from picketing, protesting, and/or demonstrating in the areas 
designated
in BLUE (which is greatly expanded from the prior "no picket" 
zone)...and
from engaging in any of the aforementioned activities within ten 
feet of
any entrance or exit actually used frequently on a daily basis to all
Church property that is not expressly included in the prohibited 
zones

"Lawful picketing means "not contrary to or forbidden by law", 
provided
that at all times while picketing, all persons bound by this 
injunction
shall comply with the anti-noise provisions of this injunction.

"from coming within ten (10) feet of any member of the Church.

"from blocking the path of any member of any motor vehicle of the 
Church

"from physically or by any other means inhibiting any Church 
member, any
member of the general public, or any motor vehicle, from entering or
leaving any Church properties that are listed in the schedule of
properties...

"from making loud and raucous noise such as, but not limited to, 
yelling,
shouting, whistling or singing (whether by natural or amplified 
voice), or
by the employment of any mechanical device such as a horn, 
whistle, or
other noisemaker that creates a loud and raucous noise that can 
be heard
inside any of the Church properties that are listed in the 
schedule of
properties

"a "loud and raucous noise" is any sound which because of its volume
level, duration, and character, annoys, disturbs, injures or 
endangers the
comfort, health, peace or safety of reasonable persons of ordinary
sensibilities.

"from entering upon any of the Church properties that are listed 
in the
schedule of properties...

"from committing any acts of harassment or violence against any 
member of
the Church, including, without limitation, any UNSOLICITED 
physical, verbal
or written contact with any Church staff or parishioner.

"must notify Clearwater Police Department at least one hour in 
advance of
the demonstrations/event and inform the Clearwater Police 
Department of
their/its intentions.

"Any violation hereof shall constitute contempt of court, 
punishable by
fine and/or imprisonment."

August __, 2001: Scientology attorney Sandy Rosen sent a letter 
to Stacy Brooks
putting her on notice that the Lisa McPherson Trust was enjoined 
under an
earlier injunction of FACTNet, a corporation of which both she 
and Mr. Minton
had been on the board of directors.

August 15, 2001: Stacy Brooks was deposed as the corporate 
representative
of the Lisa McPherson Trust. Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon 
asked many
questions that were outside the scope of the deposition, 
including a number
of questions about Ms. Brooks' personal life. Moxon also demanded 
documents
regarding the people who had come to the Lisa McPherson Trust for 
help. Ms.
Brooks refused to turn over any of the documents to Scientology 
as it would be
a violation of privacy.

August 23, 2001: Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon filed a 
Motion ________
requesting that Judge Schafer put Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks in 
jail until they
produced all the records Scientology had demanded. These records 
included all
the records of the people the Lisa McPherson Trust had helped.

August 26, 2001: Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon filed an 
Opposition to
[Lisa McPherson Trust staffer] Teresa Summers' Motion to Quash or for
Protective Order in which he tried to get the court to force Ms. 
Summers to
turn over documents about certain people who had contacted the 
Lisa McPherson
Trust for help.

August 27, 2001: Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon filed 
Oppositions to

August 28, 2001: Information was received that Scientologists 
were obtaining
information about Mr. Minton's wife and children by regularly 
stealing the
trash at the house in Boston.
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From: Stacy Brooks (stacybrooks@lisatrust.net)
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  Date: 2001-12-12 17:59:06 PST


Timeline of Scientology's Harassment of Robert S. Minton and 
Colleagues


1999

January 1999: A long-term Scientology spy was uncovered after 
having been sent
in on FACTNet, Mr. Minton, Jesse Prince, and Stacy Brooks.

January - February 1999: As directors of FACTNet, Mr. Minton and 
Ms. Brooks
were involved in settlement negotiations with high-level 
Scientologists Marty
Rathbun and Mike Rinder for a period of two months. The main 
purpose of the
settlement discussions from the Scientology perspective was to 
persuade Mr.
Minton to sign an agreement to stop funding litigation and cut 
off money to
people fighting Scientology. Once again, the Scientologists said 
that if Mr.
Minton would quit giving financial and litigation support to 
others, they would
leave Mr. Minton and his friends and family alone. In 
negotiations on this
matter, Mr. Minton said he intended to continue to support the 
McPherson case.
The Scientologists said they would not cease their harassment of 
him unless ALL
support was cut, especially the McPherson case. No agreement was 
reached
between Mr. Minton and the Scientologists, although a settlement 
was concluded
in the FACTNet case. True to their word, the Scientologists 
continued the
campaign to destroy Mr. Minton.

February 12, 1999: Mr. Minton delivered a speech entitled "A 
Warning on the
Evils of Scientology" at the Leo J. Ryan Educational Foundation 
conference in
Stamford, Connecticut.

March 1999: Scientology turned its full attention on Jeff 
Schmidt, Mr. Minton's
former business partner, harassing him relentlessly to get him to 
put pressure
on Mr. Minton to stop exposing Scientology's criminal conduct.

March 12, 1999: Several Scientologists picketed the home of Jesse 
Prince's
father in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Prince Sr. called the police, 
who ordered the
picketers to leave.

April 1999: A Danish television station asked Jesse Prince to fly 
to Copenhagen
to be interviewed for a documentary about Scientology. Aaron 
Mason, a member of
Scientology's Office of Special Affairs in Los Angeles, sent the 
station
manager a large pack of materials designed to portray Mr. Prince 
as an immoral
and dangerous criminal. Mr. Prince was in Copenhagen for 
approximately two
weeks, and he was followed by Scientology operatives throughout 
his stay.

July 1999: While Mr. Minton was conducting peaceful protests against
Scientology in Clearwater, Scientology operatives let him know by 
remarks made
to him that they knew his wife and children were in Spain. Three 
times during
his family's visit to Spain, a Scientology operative photographed 
them.

July 1999: Scientology operatives broke into Jeff Schmidt's 
London office and
photocopied extensive files. Mr. Schmidt was later told by a 
Scientology
private investigator that if he could not convince Mr. Minton to 
end his
opposition to Scientology, all of the files would be turned over 
to the Inland
Revenue and the Nigerian media. Mr. Schmidt called Mr. Minton and 
begged him to
stop criticizing Scientology. Mr. Minton tried to convince Mr. 
Schmidt to go to
the authorities and report Scientology's conduct as blackmail, 
but Mr. Schmidt
was frightened of what the Scientologists would do to him and his 
family, and
he refused.

August 1999: A Scientology private investigator from Denver, 
Colorado, visited
the mother of Jesse Prince's daughter and attempted to induce her 
to sign a
derogatory statement about Mr. Prince. The man told her that Mr. 
Prince had
sexually abused her many years before, and that she should press 
charges
against him for it. Only when the woman threatened to call the 
police did the
man agree to leave.

August 18, 1999: An email was sent to Mr. Minton under the 
pseudonym "Alberto
Rafallo." The sender accused Mr. Minton of illegally controlling 
the litigation
that attorneys Dan Leipold and Ken Dandar were conducting, based 
on the funding
that Mr. Minton had provided for lawsuits whose clients these 
attorneys
represented. This was the first indication that Scientology would 
begin to
attack Mr. Minton directly for the funding he was providing to 
various
litigation efforts. (In fact, Mr. Minton has never attempted to 
exert any
control whatsoever over any of the litigation for which he has 
provided funds.
Yet Scientology has characterized his funding of the suits as an 
effort on his
part to capitalize on religious bigotry and hate mongering. None of
Scientology's attorneys has ever made it clear how Mr. Minton 
could possibly be
making money from his efforts to end Scientology's criminal 
conduct. To date,
he has spent several million dollars with no expectation of ever 
getting any of
his money back.) "Alberto Raffallo" apparently  hoped to frighten 
Mr. Minton
into responding by threatening to post his information to the 
Internet. Mr.
Minton never responded to him, and the information was never posted.

August 26-27, 1999: Mr. Minton and Stacy Brooks had dinner at the 
Palm
Restaurant in Philadelphia with Ken Dandar, the attorney for the 
Lisa McPherson
estate in the wrongful death case brought against Scientology's 
Clearwater arm.
Several Scientologists surrounded the table during dinner in an 
attempt to
harass them, and the next morning six Scientologists picketed 
outside the hotel
where they were staying.

September 1999: The same Scientology private investigator that 
had followed
Jesse Prince in Denver followed him from Boulder, Colorado, to 
Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The man checked into the same hotel where Mr. Prince 
was staying.
Later, surveillance photographs of Mr. Prince and a friend were 
posted on the
Internet. A number of Mr. Prince's former business contacts 
reported that they
had been visited by a Scientology private investigator attempting 
to discredit
Mr. Prince.

September 17, 1999: Therese Minton received an anonymous letter 
informing her
that Mr. Minton had been in Philadelphia with Stacy Brooks. Also 
included in
the envelope was a copy of a post made by former Scientologist 
Charlotte Kates
on ARS. The subject was "An Evening at the Palm," dated 08/27/99. 
The post was
included as evidence that Mr. Minton was in Philadelphia.

October 1999: An old friend of Jesse Prince called him to let him 
know that a
Scientology private investigator had contacted him and offered 
him $10,000 to
act as a go-between so that a settlement between Scientology and 
Mr. Prince
could be reached.

October 15-27, 1999: Ms. Brooks tried to lease office space in 
downtown
Clearwater in preparation for opening the Lisa McPherson Trust, 
Inc. but was
refused by every office building. On October 21, MKV Realty, the 
company that
owns the Sun Trust Building at 601 Cleveland Avenue, became the 
first to
refuse. The owner would not to return telephone calls, and the 
manager would
not say why the lease had been refused. Mr. Minton was prepared 
to pay the full
amount of the first year's lease in advance, but this did not 
resolve the
problem. Because no legitimate reason was forthcoming, Ms. Brooks 
suspected
that Scientology was trying to stop her from leasing any space, 
but she had no
proof. One of the realtors finally admitted to her that he had 
received
information about the principles of the Lisa McPherson Trust, 
including
information that Mr. Minton had been convicted of assault and 
battery with a
deadly weapon stemming from an incident in September 1998 in 
which he caused
serious bodily harm to a Scientologist in Boston. This was 
patently false and
information was sent to the realtor to correct this. However, he 
still refused
to lease to the Lisa Trust. He then admitted that Scientology had 
contacted him
and threatened to put pressure on all of the other tenants to 
move out if he
leased space to the Lisa McPherson Trust.

October 19-20, 1999: Mr. Minton received telephone calls from 
several people
who lived in his Boston neighborhood. They said they had received 
a letter from
Scientology that read as follows: "If you have any dealings with 
Mr. Minton of
137 Fremont Rd., Sandown, New Hampshire, please be aware of his 
activities on
the internet. This sort of behavior by Mr. Minton has occurred 
repeatedly and
he has acted out some of his expressions in the form of violence 
at various
times. He appears to be incapable of controlling himself; thus 
you are being
alerted."

October 25, 1999: Mr. Minton received telephone calls from five 
different
people in Sandown, New Hampshire, from different parts of town, 
telling him
they had received the same letter that was sent out in Boston the 
preceding
week.

October 26, 1999: The two schools that Mr. Minton's daughters 
attended in
Boston received the same letter that Scientology had mailed out 
in Boston and
Sandown.

October 26, 1999: Mr. Minton received a four-page newsletter from 
Scientology
in his mailbox. It was called "Clear Body Clear Mind" and 
appeared to be a
promotional mailing for a Scientology procedure called the 
Purification
Rundown.  This was mailed from the Dianetics Center of Massachusetts.

October 30, 1999: A Halloween flier was put on Mr. Minton's and 
other mailboxes
on Fremont Road in Sandown, New Hampshire. The flier featured a 
photograph of
Mr. Minton and a headline that read: "Trick or Treaters Beware!"

October 31, 1999: Mr. Minton arrived at the Tampa International 
Airport and was
met by two Scientologists, who shouted at him, "Bob, what are you 
doing in our
town? Get out of our town!" He and Ms. Brooks were then followed 
from the
airport to Clearwater, and to their hotel. Richard Howd was one 
of the
Scientologists who followed Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks from the 
airport to their
hotel. Mr. Minton stopped the car near the entrance to the hotel 
and got out to
confront the Scientologists. While Mr. Minton spoke to the woman 
who was
driving the car, Mr. Howd held a video camera inches from Mr. 
Minton's face. He
continued to do this throughout the conversation, until Mr. 
Minton got back
into his car. That evening Mr. Minton picketed in front of the 
Fort Harrison
Hotel, and again Richard Howd was there, keeping a video camera 
inches from his
face as he walked back and forth picketing. Ms. Brooks was also 
there,
videotaping so that there would be a record of what happened, as 
the presence
of Mr. Howd was a disturbing signal that the harassment against 
Mr. Minton was
escalating. Finally, as Mr. Minton rounded the corner of the 
building, two
Scientologists blocked Ms. Brooks so that she could not follow 
with her camera.
Richard Howd pushed Mr. Minton while he was sure he was not being 
videotaped.
At this point Mr. Minton decided to call the police. He began to 
cross the
street and pulled out his cell phone to call, but Richard Howd 
followed Mr.
Minton across the street, holding the video camera close to Mr. 
Minton's ear.
Mr. Minton turned around and told Howd to get away from him, 
thrusting his sign
at him defensively. The sign grazed Howd's eyebrow. Immediately 
Howd fell to
the ground, moaning as if he were in extreme pain. The police 
arrived and the
Scientologists showed them the videotape of Mr. Minton thrusting 
his sign at
Howd as he crossed the street. Because there was no videotape of 
Howd's earlier
assault on Mr. Minton, the Scientologists were able to convince 
the police to
arrest Mr. Minton. He was handcuffed and taken to the Pinellas 
County Jail,
arrested for battery. Scientology immediately began to send Mr. 
Minton's mug
shot to his friends and neighbors in an effort to identify him as 
a criminal.
(Mr. Minton went to trial in March 2000 and was acquitted after 
the jury heard
evidence that made it clear Mr. Minton had been set up by 
Scientology. However,
Scientology has continued to this day to use this incident to 
harass Mr.
Minton.)

November 1999: Jesse Prince accepted an invitation from the 
German Secret
Service to meet with them in Mannheim so that they could 
interview him about
Scientology. Mr. Prince was there for three days and was followed by
Scientology operatives constantly while he was there. One 
evening, two
Scientology operatives attempted to force Mr. Prince into a car 
with them. Mr.
Prince was forced to run into a crowd to escape. Before he left 
Germany Mr.
Prince met with an editor of the German magazine Der Spiegel for 
an interview
about child abuse in Scientology's Sea Organization. On his 
return to the
United States Mr. Prince had a layover in Amsterdam. A 
Scientology private
investigator followed him to an Internet café there and watched 
him as he sent
an email to Mr. Minton. Later, Scientology falsely reported in 
the Lisa
McPherson wrongful death case that Mr. Prince had been seen 
smoking marijuana
in the café.

November 1, 1999: Mr. Minton had decided to buy a building in 
downtown
Clearwater for the Lisa McPherson Trust, since Scientology had 
successfully
blocked him from leasing office space in any of the office 
buildings downtown.
The morning after Mr. Minton's arrest, Scott Brauer, the owner of 
the property
at 33 North Fort Harrison Avenue, was giving Mr. Minton and Ms. 
Brooks a tour
of his building when suddenly seven Scientologists burst into the 
room and
began screaming at Mr. Brauer, "Don't do business with this man! 
He's a
criminal! He was arrested last night for assaulting a 
Scientologist!" Mr.
Minton and Ms. Brooks had already told Mr. Brauer what happened 
the night
before. Mr. Brauer ordered the Scientologists out of the 
building, informing
them that they were trespassing. They then began picketing the 
building and
taking photographs of Mr. Brauer's clients as they arrived. Mr. 
Brauer then
called the police, who came in and introduced themselves to Mr. 
Minton and
thanked him for taking a stand against Scientology. When Mr. 
Minton and Ms.
Brooks left the building, the Scientologists followed them to 
their car in the
parking lot across the street and surrounded the car in a 
menacing manner. They
blocked them from leaving the parking lot until the manager of 
the parking lot
called the police.

November 4, 1999: An anonymous flier showing the mug shot from 
Mr. Minton's
Clearwater arrest was sent to over 4,000 Sandown, New Hampshire, 
residents, Mr.
Minton's friends and family in Boston and England, parents of Mr. 
Minton's
daughters' classmates and the schools of Mr. Minton's two 
daughters. A private
detective visited the twelve houses in the small English village 
where Mr.
Minton's father-in-law lived, informing everyone in the village 
about Mr.
Minton's arrest in Clearwater.

November 6, 1999: Mr. Minton was served with a temporary 
restraining order,
enjoining him from coming within 150 yards of the 18 Scientology 
buildings in
Clearwater, and also enjoining him from coming within 150 yards 
of any
individual Scientologist. Because there are so many Scientologists in
Clearwater, this effectively barred Mr. Minton from Clearwater.

November 20, 1999: A private investigator hired by Scientology 
contacted the
father of Leslie White in New Canaan, Connecticut. Ms. Brooks and 
Mr. Minton
had both stayed with the White family in February 1998 to help 
Leslie, who had
just left Scientology and was close to having a nervous 
breakdown. The private
investigator falsely stated to Leslie's father that he had been 
hired by
Therese Minton and wanted to know what Leslie's father knew about 
Mr. Minton
and Ms. Brooks' relationship. The investigator told Mr. White 
that Mr. Minton
was "bipolar" and needed to be on medication on a daily basis for 
his "mental
imbalance." The private investigator also called Leslie's mother 
and Leslie
herself; unsuccessfully attempting to convince them to talk to 
him about Mr.
Minton and Ms. Brooks.

November 23, 1999: Another anonymous flier was placed in the 
mailboxes of Mr.
Minton's Sandown, New Hampshire, neighborhood. The flier was a 
copy of a web
page Scientology had created on the Internet showing the mug shot 
from Mr.
Minton's October 31 arrest in Clearwater and painting a grossly 
distorted
picture of what had happened.

November 1999: Mr. Minton entered into a contract to buy the 
office building at
33 North Fort Harrison Avenue. The owner, Scott Brauer, told Mr. 
Minton that a
Scientologist came and sat in the reception room of the building 
for hours with
a signed offer to buy the building for substantially more than 
Mr. Minton's
contract. Mr. Minton was contacted by another property owner in 
Clearwater who
told him that it was impossible to rent office space to tenants 
in Clearwater
because of harassment from Scientology. Every time anyone tried 
to lease a
space, Scientology operatives would intimidate the potential 
client until they
gave up in fear. In this way, this property owner explained, 
Scientology was
forcing the prices of all property in Clearwater down to rock 
bottom, at which
point they would buy it all up themselves. With regard to Mr. 
Minton in
particular, a property owner informed him that a member of the City
Commissioner's office made calls to all the property owners in 
Clearwater
warning them not to sell property to Mr. Minton. One property 
owner said she
got 40 calls in one day telling her not to do business with 
Minton or his
co-workers. Mr. Minton and Ms. Brooks were provided with a 
photocopy of a fax
that had been sent naming three people with whom the property 
owner was not to
have any dealings. The three people were Robert Minton, Stacy 
Brooks and Jesse
Prince.

December 3, 1999: Judge Thomas Penick issued a temporary 
injunction prohibiting
Mr. Minton from coming within ten feet of any Scientologist or 
Scientology
property in downtown Clearwater.

December 12, 1999: Dateline ran a follow-up story about Mr. 
Minton in which
Scientology spokesperson Mike Rinder made the following 
statements: "Bob Minton
falls into a category similar to those anti-Semites who are out 
to make it seem
like there is something wrong with being a Jew," and later: "I 
don't know what
motivates this guy, I don't know what. But on the other hand if 
you ask me do I
know what motivated Timothy McVey to go blow up a building, I 
don't know
either."

December 1999: A flier was distributed in the Boulder, Colorado, 
neighborhood
in which Jesse Prince was living. The flier's title was "Jesse 
Prince: The Face
of Religious Bigotry," and it had a photograph of Mr. Prince from 
a recent
arrest. The Boulder police had received an anonymous call that 
Mr. Prince was
driving while intoxicated, and based on this he had been 
arrested. The text of
the flier accused Mr. Prince of being part of an anti-religious 
hate group and
of physically threatening Scientologists. It also stated: "Prince 
is closely
associated with and financially supported by a religious bigot 
named Robert
Minton, who has a long history of mental problems and psychiatric 
treatment.
Together they have threatened individuals with axes and 
sledgehammers and threw
rocks at these people and property. Prince and Minton regularly 
show up drunk
and disorderly in front of church premises just to cause trouble. 
Minton has
discharged a shotgun at our people, an incident under 
investigation by law
enforcement. Prince has recently been arrested for drunk driving 
in Boulder and
Minton faces trial this December for assault and battery when he 
attacked
another individual with a stick and beat him across the face. 
Next time you see
this man Prince (or his sidekick Minton), recognize the face of 
religious
bigotry." It was signed "Free Speech & Religious Freedom 
Committee of The
Parishioners of The Church of Scientology of Colorado."

December 10, 1999: The Tampa Tribune published a favorable piece 
by columnist
Rick Berry about Mr. Minton and the Lisa McPherson Trust entitled 
"Bob Minton:
Will he rouse the gorilla?" In it, Berry congratulated Mr. Minton 
for standing
up to Scientology, the "gorilla" in downtown Clearwater.


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Stacy Brooks started this work and posted it at the Date: 
2001-12-12 17:59:06 PST - Who will continue her unfinished work?

Timeline of Scientology's Harassment of Robert S. Minton and 
Colleagues 2001-2002


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